Below The Seabed –
ROV applications and tooling

ROVs are employed on many sub-sea tasks, many of which were formerly undertaken by divers. These operations include; pipeline inspection and maintenance, drill support, platform inspection and maintenance, intervention, cable laying, construction, mine counter measures, anti-terrorism/drug enforcement, scientific and archaeological survey. In deep water, ROVs are the only method of installing hardware, performing maintenance checks and rectifying problems. A recent example of this was following the failure of the drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon drill rig in the Gulf of Mexico, where in the immediate aftermath of the event, ROVs were used first to examine and try to fix the malfunctioning ‘Blow out Preventer’ (BOP) and then to manoeuvre and install a range of devices designed to stop the flow of oil.