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Greensea’s New Ship Hull Crawler

Greensea introduces a new hull crawler that attaches a ROV to a ship hull without magnetics, allowing the operator to “drive” the ROV and payloads over the hull. Initial hull crawlers are designed to work exclusively with the VideoRay Mission Specialist Defender ROV. The hull crawler represents a milestone in Greensea’s hull robotics program, which is advancing navigation and localization capabilities for a fully autonomous robotic hull inspection and proactive in-water cleaning solution. VideoRay and Greensea expect early adopters of the technol- ogy will use the Defender with the Greensea hull crawling attachment for hull inspection, surveying, non-destructive testing, and explosive ordnance disposal purposes. In 2019, Greensea was awarded a Phase 2

Rustibus

R&D program through the U.S. Navy to develop a highly accurate navi- gation and autonomy solution for ship hull robots for the purposes of

Rustibus Scalers supporting autonomous proactive in-water cleaning. This program will

For more than 40 years Rustibus has been sup- utilize several of Greensea’s core navigation and autonomy technologies plying deck scalers to the marine community. But including their work with inertial navigation systems in ferrous envi- the focus has broadened, as it added safety and the ronments and feature-based localization. The hull crawler technology enivonmental aspects to the use of its rust removal will provide the delivery mechanism for the advanced software being produts, recently launching Safe Edge. This is a developed in the Phase II program.

product that can be placed on an open manhole on a ship to secure the access point from falling and also be able to do maintenance and venting of the tank while in use. This allows the end user to better apply safety protocols when conducting tank inspections or maintenance. The Safe Edge protec- tion device comes in several sizes and shapes, allowing for cables, air hoses or large ducts to be channeled while still securing fall prevention on deck. All Rustibus machines are recommended to be ftted with a vacuum system and there is also room for this hose to be channeled trough the Safe

Edge if working in a confned space. Noise reduc- tion, vibration, and dust-in-air are areas of continu- ous improvement on the Rustibus machines.

Greensea

New Davit Cranes

Patterson Manufacturing is a supplier of winches, rigging, and fttings, inventing the frst river ratchet in 1871, to patent- ing the YoYo winch in 2009. The

Patterson Davit Cranes exhibit

SP Bluetooth Load Shackle DP World Orders 8 Cranes the company’s hallmark safety,

RSB Rigging Solutions (RSB) Liebherr Container Cranes and simplicity, and durability with: offers a Bluetooth-enabled DP World Berbera have signed • Low Maintenance wireless load shackle: a long a contract for the supply of • Hot-Dipped Galvanized/Salt- range, 2.4Ghz version with eight RTGs for DP World’s water Ready a wireless range of 1,000m; terminal in Berbera, Somalil- • No Plastic Sheaves or Pulleys and, a Bluetooth, smart phone and. The cranes are due to be

The cranes are available in 1/2- product with ranges up to ready for operation before the ton and 1-ton capacities.

100m. end of 2020.

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