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Waterproof ROV Surface

Control Equipment

A new, completely sealed and water- proof surface control unit for ROV operations has been developed by

Seaeye. The unit is rated to the inter- national standard IP68, and is designed to withstand emersion to one meter. Designed for use with their Seaeye Falcon ROV, the unit's special sealing arrangements and slip- ring hinge between base and lid, means it is also fully protected against dust ingress in any hazardous shore- based environment.

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Schilling Debuts Titan 4

The newest model of Schilling

Robotics' Titan manipulator series, the Titan 4, is designed to be a lighter- weight, sim- plified system.

The Titan 4 design relo- cates the slave arm electron- ics from a sep- arate enclosure to the manipulator forearm, eliminating the subsea slave controller, slave cable, and 79-pin wiring harness. The new design also reduces Titan system weight by approximately 18 kg (40 lb) in air and 9 kg (20 lb) in water. The stan- dard depth rating has increased to 4,000 m, and a 7,000-m model is also available.

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CTG Presents Nv-Shuttle

Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) delivered an instrumented towed undulating oceanographic recorder, N?-Shuttle, to the Marine and Coastal Management Group of the Department of Environment and

Tourism, Cape Town, South Africa to be utilized within their monitoring programs in the Benguela system.

The Nv-Shuttle will first be used on the RV Africana and the RV Algoa to complement the routine St Helena

Bay and SARP monitoring lines. The monitoring at fixed locations will be complemented by either towing con- tinuously back along the monitoring line or by towing between stations and retrieving the Nv-Shuttle every 10 nautical miles.

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ECA to Conduct AUV

Trials in GoM

The offshore sea trial using the

Alistar 3000 Inspection AUV was designed by BP to evaluate the tech- nology. It will be located in the com- pany's deepwater King Field in the

Gulf of Mexico and will comprise: • Passive pipeline inspection:

Alistar 3000 will locate and follow a pipeline at various altitudes above the pipeline while recording video, sonar data and actual flowline position, Active pipeline inspection:

Alistar 3000, using on-board sensors that can automatically detect anodes or anomalies while tracking the flow- line, will modify its mission to carry out closer General Visual Inspection (GVI) of the detected features, Structure inspection: Alistar 3000 will follow the flowline to a pipeline end structure and will process in real time, sensor informa- tion to maneuver around the struc- ture to perform a GVI.

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