ROV Planet Magazine Issue 28: The magazine of choice for Subsea Construction and Marine Robotics Professionals. Featuring Welcome to ROV Planet - Connecting the Oceans with the Popoto Modem, ISURUS ROV Opens Operating Windows for Renewables Projects, Ploughing Ahead: 50 Years of Subsea Excellence from SMD, OCEAN 2020 Open Cooperation for European Maritime Awareness, Deep Trekker Treks into Tech, Global ROV Contractor Plans for Future Expansion, RTSYS the Rising Company, ARCS: Canada’s First AUV, Power In and Data Out: How C-Power’s SeaRAY AOPS Starts the Future of the Ocean Economy Today, 80 Years of Habia Cable: From Submarines to ROVs, iAtlantic Project: A Scientific Research Mission to Explore the Deep Sea Around Cabo Verde, The Marine Robotics Workforce of the Future

Petrobras has awarded Fugro a 3-year contract for subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) services in Brazil. The contract is set to begin in Q4 2021 and will be accomplished from the Fugro Aquarius using two Fugro-built 3000 m work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The award follows the successful completion of a previous 4-year contract for similar services aboard the same vessel.

TSC Subsea, global specialist in developing advanced subsea inspection solutions for challenging situations, has designed a new ROV-deployed automated scanning tool which addresses the issue of carrying out tight access field joint inspection through difficult to penetrate pipeline coating.

Deep Ocean Engineering recently supported Enviro-Tech Diving Inc. in Seattle, Washington with their 2 Phantom ROVs, purchased through government auctions.

Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) today announced that it has secured an order from DOF Subsea to supply two of its improved 200HP Perry XLX-C work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The advanced ROVs will add fresh capability to the DOF Subsea fleet and can pave the way for aged asset renewals with a new and improved class of ROV. The systems will be manufactured at FET’s UK facility at Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire and will be delivered in the second half of 2021.

This month, scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will join a team of marine scientists from the iAtlantic project on a month-long collaborative expedition to investigate the ecosystems and natural processes in the deep sea around the Cabo Verde islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Mariscope Mediterraneo consolidates its position in Europe after a year and a half of work, through the acquisition of its recently launched Flunder ROV by the Italian company Poliservizi s.r.l.

Last week SEAMOR Marine’s Chinook ROV was used by Honolulu-based Sea Engineering, Inc. to help locate and survey a downed Boeing 737 cargo plane. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff about two miles offshore from Ewa Beach in Oahu, Hawaii, and sank to the seafloor at a depth of 350 to 450 feet - a depth too dangerous for divers to navigate. The only two passengers onboard Transair flight 810, both pilots, were rescued by helicopter.

The SW1050UW underwater inspection drone mounted with the M310UW Newton Underwater Laser Scanner is specifically designed for the inspection of dams.

SEAMOR Marine and Nautilus Oceanica of Madrid, Spain, signed an exclusive partnership agreement to distribute SEAMOR’s world-class remotely operated vehicles in Spain.

A team of young engineers from Grove Academy in Dundee has once again taken top place in an annual competition at Robert Gordon University and will now have the opportunity to progress to the MATE ROV World Championships in USA.

The Cygnus Mini ROV Mountable thickness gauge has been specially designed to be mounted onto small observation ROVs with or without a manipulator facility. And most recently, Cygnus worked with the renowned Canadian ROV & crawler specialist-manufacturer “Deep Trekker” - to achieve full integration with their unique and polyvalent ROVs.

Rovco and PanGeo Subsea announces the formation of a powerful collaboration, designed to combine their respective areas of expertise to capture and provide early insight into changing subsea component and environmental conditions that may lead to wider problems or failures without planned intervention.

Rovco today announced the launch of a new hydrographic services division, “Rovco Survey Solutions”, building on its experience as a leader in asset integrity and ROV projects. The Edinburgh and Bristol-based UK company is now offering a range of hydrographic, geophysical and site survey services across the offshore sector. They are pledging an investment of £9.5m in the new division, to be spent over the next 24 months. Rovco will expand its survey team, which has already flexed to more than 45 people for recent key projects, by welcoming an additional 8 new survey staff members this month.

Global subsea equipment solutions specialist Ashtead Technology has invested over £1million in a range of EdgeTech sonar imaging and underwater technology systems to enhance its extensive equipment fleet.

Blueye Robotics launches the X3, its third Blueye ROV model. Three Guest Ports open up endless possibilities for connecting external peripherals such as sonars, manipulators, sensors, cameras and lights. The tight integration with Blueye's user-upgradeable Blunux operating system makes the X3 both future-proof and easy-to-use.

ROV Planet Magazine Issue 27: The magazine of choice for Subsea Construction and Marine Robotics Professionals. Featuring Welcome to ROV Planet - Vaarst: Cloud Robotics Company with Vast Opportunities - What’s Next and What’s Needed in Offshore Oil and Gas - Mimosa: The Mission Planning and Monitoring Software with the Right Mix of Ingredients - Intelligent Robots Could be the Best Choice to Mine the Deep Seafloor - Cost-Effective Subsea Operations with HonuWorx - Skilltrade Hydrographic Survey Course Review: E-Learning Modules - Poster: Hydromea ExRay - HMS Oardacious - The Future of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Industry - Argeo Orders Two SeaRaptor AUVs for Ultra-Deepwater Surveys - Sea Sentinel: Bionic Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from NOA Marine - Modelling, Testing, and Sea Trials: All Without Leaving the Lab - Balmoral ROV Buoyancy Featuring Aerospace Bonding Won’t Let You Down - Aleron Achieve Operational and Cost Efficiencies for ROV Manipulator Operations - Digital Edge Introduces the Edg

UK offshore wind workers could be kept safe using a remotely operated search and rescue service, thanks to a project backed by £7 million of government support. This project is one of 38 business-led projects which will receive funding to accelerate their robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The projects are part of UK Research and Innovation’s robots for a safer world challenge.