With an increasing number of severe accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston (UH) researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.
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A Great Lakes shipwreck hunter was reunited with his missing ROV, lost for eight years in Lake Michigan at a depth of 134 m–and it still works.
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Oceaneering International OII recently declared that its subsea robotics segment secured multiple contracts in the third quarter of 2022, with expected cumulative revenues of about $300 million.
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Huon Aquaculture, Australia’s second largest salmon farmer, has purchased another Saab Seaeye Falcon underwater robotic vehicle to support its marine and environmental operations.
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For the first time, international scientists from eight member states of UNESCO have modeled shipwrecks and improved local mapping in order to protect important underwater cultural heritage in Italy and Tunisia.
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Scientists have found more than 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea. Researchers from the UK’s Natural History Museum used a remotely operated vehicle to collect specimens from the abyssal plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific.
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