Undersea Vehicles and National Needs (1996) / Chapter Skim
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The treaty will establish a more secure environment for investment, encouraging activities for managing and exploiting ocean resources. Oceanographers, ocean engineers, and those who use and manage the ocean's resources use a variety of platforms and payloads, including Earth-orbiting spacecraft, surface ships, moored and drifting buoys, towed sleds, and undersea vehicles, depending on the task at hand.
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ROVs are also widely used for laying undersea cables, and, as offshore development moves into deeper waters, ROVs will be increasingly required. Typically, the human operator of an ROV works at the telemanipulation level, piloting the vehicle and controlling its manipulators through direct coordinated control using joy sticks.
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Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. FIGURE 1-2 Photo of Deep Rover (Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc.~.
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HD2+2 was developed by Deep Ocean Engineering, San Leandro, California, in 1985. There are 14 Phantom designs in the series.
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. ABE was designed and built by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with National Science Foundation funding to monitor deep ocean hydrothermal systems.
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In the United States, examples included the Navy-ownedAlvin (operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) , Sea Cliff, and Turtle; the Johnson Sea-Link, owned by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution; and the Delta, owned and operated by a for-profit company that primarily supplies oceanographic research services.
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Growing Navy spending supported the development of several early AUVs for various military missions. The number of piloted submersibles available worldwide continued to decline as commercial users shifted their interests to ROVs, which were demonstrating increasing work capabilities at lower cost each year and relieved concerns about risks to human operators.
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Using submersible platforms has facilitated major deep-seafloor discoveries in the life sciences and geosciences and has provided dramatic video of towering deep-ocean vents in action. But it has been the discovery and imaging of famous shipwrecks, such as the Titanic, Bismarck, and Lusitania, by teams from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, led by Dr.
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of NOAA operates and leases undersea vehicles, making them available for scientific missions. Available DSVs include the Johnson Sea-Link I and II and Clelia, owned by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, and the Delta, owned by Delta Oceanographics.
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Other nations have assumed leadership in many areas of undersea vehicle technology, although no single nation has assumed broad world leadership. Through JAMSTEC, Japan has pursued an intensive national program of undersea exploration using undersea vehicles, including an ambitious program of diving to nearly 11,000 meters the very bottom of the ocean with the ROV Kaiko (working with the 6,500meter, tether DSV, Shinkai)
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Pp. 150-262 in World Technology Evaluation Center Panel Report on Research Submersibles and Undersea Technologies.
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