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Sea Technology

Cygnus Thickness Gauge

Designed for VideoRay with VideoRay to develop a dedicated unit that mounts onto the VideoRay Pro.

Together, we can target applications, such as inside pipelines, that have previ- ously been unfeasible using divers or large ROVs."

The Cygnus gauge was used on a

VideoRay during a survey of the USS

Arizona battleship, which sunk at the start of WWII in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

During explorations by the National

Park Service Submerged Cultural

Resources Unit, the Cygnus gauge aboard a VideoRay traveled up to 150 feet inside the ship to test a wall for structural support and determine levels of deterioration to structural members.

VideoRay ROVs are used for under- water security and surveillance, search and rescue missions, wreck explo- rations, scientific research, and inspec- tions of dams, culverts, piers, and other submerged structures.

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VideoRay announced that the Cygnus

Instruments Mini ROV Thickness

Gauge has been specially designed for mounting on the 8-lb. VideoRay Pro

ROV. Proven inside the USS Arizona battleship, the gauge is less expensive than the cost of diving excursions to measure thickness underwater and is especially useful for potable water tank inspections.

The gauge uses a technique known as

Multiple Echo, which allows metal thickness measurements to be taken without first removing coatings. The unit is pressure tested to 500 meters.

Dedicated software displays the time, date and thickness readings on the sur- face, and all readings can be stored.

Jon Sharland, Sales and Marketing

Manager of Cygnus Instruments, com- mented, "The gauge is based on the larg- er ROV mountable unit which has already been proven many times in the harsh conditions of the underwater and offshore industries worldwide. We wel- comed the opportunity to work closely

BP to Award Contracts for Subsea Technology

BP Exploration Operating

Company Limited issued a Letter of

Intent to Aker Kvaerner covering a frame agreement for the supply of steel tube subsea umbilicals for the

UK North Sea. Kvaerner Oilfield

Products, the Aker Kvaerner group's subsidiary specializing in advanced subsea technology, will provide project management, engineering and manufacturing of steel tube umbilicals.

The steel tube umbilicals will be manufactured at Kvaerner Oilfield

Products' purpose-built facility in

Moss, Norway.

The agreement has a duration of three years with an optional exten- sion of an additional two years.

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