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Hello Chris

Your best bet for footage of this nature would be ROV operating companies.

Oceaneering in the states are usually very willing to assist programmes such as yours.

Other companies y ...

subseaUK,

The phrase 'horses for courses' springs to mind.

You say a full pipeline survey spread - does this include multibeams, ins, pipetracker, CP, boom cameras etc?

If it does, you'll n ...

Oh oh.

Hope the Tern place crowd are ready for this.

This was mooted a couple of years ago. Something to do with Saipem being unable to understand why Sonsub paid so much money for "just te ...

As much as I hate to say it.

Call the DSV.

Nae danger of doing the job without a custom designed bit of tooling, which would take a couple of months, at least, to design, manafacture and test. ...

You hit the nail on the head Scott.

It all comes down to cost.

basic 19" racks. Basic console attached. Joystick on console. and touchscreen for switches. = Cheap as possible.

It'll stil ...

Ooh oh.

Don't do it!

Can of worms Dan. Oil drum of worms in fact.

Involved with some of this stuff a couple of years ago. Ask 20 people and get 20 different answers.

Essentially the 'old ...

See the Siapem 'brainwash' still works.

Benny, No it isn't.

What about the Surfer that was shot at?

Or the fact they are sailing you past the worst part of the Niger Delta for 10-12 hours?
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Truud

You don't mention what type of ROV, workclass or eyeball?

I'd look at the various types of fibre mux available from Prizm and Focal. These multiplex the video signals and data at the sourc ...

Or Prizm.

Just make sure they're well shielded from RADAR though!

The Whittaker is a beast of an arm!

Very strong, but also very large. About on a par with a rigmaster for performance, but can take up a lot of space on a small sub.

Don't know about the Kraft ...

Gentlemen.

Your missing the bigger picture here.

It would appear that anyone can now decide to create a SAFETY course.

With the right promotion, you can get the operators to buy into it and ...

DonF

You seem to be taking this thread as a dig at you personally.

The put I was trying to make was that the "ROV engineer" (or rov specialist,co-ordinator,whatever other term the comp ...

So 4+ years ROV experience AND a degree in engineering.

Think I've met 1 person offshore with that kind of CV in 15 years.

Saw this job posted a few places recently.

Think it's for Heerema in Holland.

This seems to be an increasing trend in recent years. A job which was/would be perfect for an experienced rov bod wa ...

Abnormal

Please feel free to ignore some of the more purile remarks.

Your background sounds like a good grounding for rov work. The question is why would you want to?

If heading offshore, yo ...