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A 20-inch Vitrovex hollow borosilicate glass sphere is ? tted with feedthroughs, making it a self-buoyant instrument housing.

Credit: Steffen Pausch, Nautilus Marine Service, Buxtehude, DE

Underwater Connector Companies to Consider Acknowledgements • AK Industries https://ak-ind.com/ I learned a lot from Ray Hayworth, General Dynamics Elec- • Amphenol Deeptronica (drymate, MCBH) tric Boat Division, who shared his experience broadly, spoke https://amphenolltw.com/product-info/DeepTronica/. at MTS cable and connector conferences, and published de- Made in China for Amphenol. sign guidelines for use at Electric Boat. R. Frank Busby’s • Birns https://birns.com/ Manned Submersibles text is still a classic and available as • Blue Link https://blue-linked.com/underwater-connectors a free download (https://archive.org/details/mannedsub- • Blue Robotics https://bluerobotics.com/product- mersibl00busb). Bob Wernli and Bob Christ’s “The ROV category/cables-connectors/ Manual: Second Edition,” has a lengthy chapter on cables • Burton Subsea Connector (Eaton) (Google and connectors. Thanks to Andy Gardener, Teledyne Impulse, “Burton Subsea”) who suggested revisiting this topic.

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