New ROV for Bre­men Deep-Sea Re­search and En­vir­on­mental Ob­ser­va­tion

14.04.2022
MARUM - Cen­ter for Mar­ine En­vir­on­mental Sci­ences at the Uni­versity of Bre­men is get­ting a new ROV. The new sys­tem has a higher per­form­ance than ROV MARUM-QUEST. This means that the diving ro­bot can be used, for ex­ample, to trans­port ob­ser­vat­or­ies to the ocean floor and con­duct in­vest­ig­a­tions at a wa­ter depth of 5,000 meters.





The ROV re­places the cur­rent diving ro­bot MARUM-QUEST. MAR­UM's mar­ine tech­no­logy team has con­tinu­ously de­veloped the ROV over nearly 20 years to meet sci­entific re­quire­ments. For ex­ample, high-res­ol­u­tion cam­era sys­tems have been de­veloped to en­able re­cord­ings in 4k format or as ste­reo im­ages from the deep sea. A vari­ety of sampling and meas­ur­ing devices have been de­veloped in dif­fer­ent sci­entific work­ing groups spe­cific­ally for use on the diving ro­bot. In ad­di­tion, re­search­ers on land can fol­low dives in real time through so-called tele­p­res­ence.

MARUM-Quest and the new diving ro­bot are com­pat­ible, so that in­di­vidual com­pon­ents – for ex­ample, the tele­metry sys­tem and all spe­cial sci­entific pay­loads – can con­tinue to be used with the new ROV.

The ROV will be de­livered next year by the com­pany Schilling Ro­bot­ics (USA). After a con­ver­sion and up­grade phase, it will be used for the first time for sci­ence in 2024. MARUM-QUEST will be kept in op­er­a­tion un­til then.

The cost of the new diving ro­bot, in­clud­ing the sup­ply cable and winch, is around 4.5 mil­lion euros, half of which is provided by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment and half by the state of Bre­men.

Location: Bremen, Germany









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