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tertight housing (camera housing). The housing is made of thermoplastic, with a removable front part made of trans- parent crystal and an O-ring seal. The ethernet switch and the ? ber-to-copper converter are also located in a sealed hub housing.

The removal of all individual parts is by design easy, allowing for on-site maintenance or replacement of parts of the system without having to lift out of the sea the entire installation.

Wet plugs suitable for the marine envi- ronment have been ? tted, allowing the cables to be connected and disconnected in the water. The two enclosures were designed entirely for the needs of the project, taking into account parameters such as depth, mounting, oxidation, ca- thodic protection and resistance to ultra- violet (UV) radiation.

Particular attention was paid to the ability of disconnection, cut-off of the system. So in case that a ? shing gear gets entangled in one of the cameras (housing), or “catches” a cable branch, www.marinetechnologynews.com 39

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