Personal ROV question

Steve,

A couple of questions:

Where do you plan on doing the shipwreck hunting at, i.e. open ocean or lakes?

What depths are you thinking the ships are in or what depth do you want to be able to go to?

Chief

Steve,

The open ocean & CCB coupled with your budget makes things awfully difficult… The only real ROV’s I know of in your price range are VideoRay Scout’s & Explorer’s and they and even though you could use them in the enviornment your talking about, it’s going to be a very tough job to try to accomplish with them.

Another option is to see what used/demonstration gear they have available for sale. It never hurts to ask them what’s available.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask or email me.

Chief

Yes, I think he means the current. I have worked with the VideoRay before and although it is one of your lesss expensive ROVs, it is excellent in little or no current, as long as there is little current you should have no problem. One solution could be to run a clump weight with a small cable over the job site and run carabiner hooks which you can tape to the rovs tether…..that will help keep it in place somewhat however if there is a current to speak of, you will not be able to do much work…… When I was using one, we employed this method quite successfully but we didnt have a large area to inspect. In fact we were just monitoring bullseyes on a drill platform.

great thanks…I’ll keep it in mind.

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