TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Richie Enzmann
04 Welcome to ROV Planet 07
COPY EDITOR Will Grant
ROV Technology advances through Global Oceaneering Mission Support Centers
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Pulling their Weight – Why Active Heave Compensation is crucial for today’s ROV operations
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Contain-A-LARS – An All in One Plug and Play ROV Deployment Solution Female American Students
21 Explore Future of Robotics
24 SeaDrone Introduces Inspector 2.0 26 Poster 28 The DWTek I-90 ROV Demo at Ocean Business 33 The USS Indianapolis Expedition Big Winners at 2017 International
37 MATE Underwater Competition
Seismic Acquisition Using Autonomous Vehicles –
43 A Game Changer for the E&P Oil and Gas Industry DriX – Putting Humans Where
47 They Belong and Saving Vessel Time 50 IOSTIA
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CONTRIBUTORS Richie Enzmann, Jill Zande, Lynn Dohm, Sudhir Pai DESIGN & LAYOUT Milan Farkas SPECIAL THANKS TO Bill Mallin, Christina Tran, Stephen Gibb, John Benson, Doug Trail, Julian Lalanne, Victor Sepuvelda, Trevor Bayfield, Lisa Wu, Doowon Choi, David Jaramillo, Karl Scheuermann, Andrejs Cernavskis, Anette Isabella Bergaas, Matt Bates, Willard Balthazar, Eduardo Moreno, Rich Lawson, Larry Hagstrom Oceaneering Balmoral Offshore Sidus Sonavision Scantrol WT Industries Saab Seaeye SeaDrone DWTek Digital Edge Subsea QSTAR Subsea Solutions Ashtead Technology EPRONS Zetechtics Echologger RUD Ketten Maxon Motor MATE Schlumberger IOSTIA iXBlue Vulcan 3U Technologies
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Front Page Cover Photo: Courtesy of Oceaneering | Poster Photo: Courtesy of Northwestern