SPRINT 101

I have , they were ok , thrusters were alright provided you blew them out after fifty hours flying time ( Different companies had different policies on when to do maintenance ) It was very responsive and very stable and a very good inspection ROV compared to the other vehicles at the time , Ie Phantoms / Ufo’s / Darts / Deepsea Rovers / Seaeye 600’s and 225’s.
I think ( personnal like ) what was the big down fall of the vehicle was the ridiculous price tag on spares and that being a fibreglass hull meant that over zealous ‘pedal to the metal’ pilots cracked it . In other words , they did not like being rammed , not robust enough ! I believe Robertson tritech were the manufacturers at the time and the money they stupidly charged for parts was what allowed other companies such as Seaeye marine to under-cut in the low cost competition Dept .
One brilliant concept that no other company managed to do was the single view port but change in SIT/Colour or Stills by way of prisims 😯
I had only taken a sprint 103 system down to 450 m and it worked well but that does not necessarily mean they could not go deeper.
I found the controller to be easy to use. The TMS was an art to maintain
( you either knew it or you didn’t ) People who did not know what they were doing tended to bugger around with the main clutch – In air ! . This resulted in a birds nest underwater. I had no problems with it though 😀
Other companies tended to utilise the old 225 TMS garage in preferance to the costly Sprint TMS.
Comex had plenty of these for sprints as most of their 225’s became thruster food 😆
There for , buying Sprint 101 and using 225 TMS saved them a few squid 😀

It used to be Robertson/Tritech then they were bought out by……………..
The only difference between the 101 and 103 is the 103 is TMS’d.
If the vehicle has aluminum plastered all over it then the original has been disintergrated long ago or it was put on it to protect it.
The Sprint had plastic lined props held on by an eclip if I recall.
The props were manufactured only for Sprint possibly from inside the Scandinavian quarter but not sure.
If the power was ‘dicky being supplied to it then the zenor diodes would blow and then it would not ‘start up’ ( topside processor talking to the controller board.
The old 325 Tritech was crude but at least you saw things on it …………
Not like the Sea Prince which you could be sitting right next to and still not see on the sonar 😯
The Sprint was good in it’s day ( as long as you were keeping up with the maintenance programme ) But they really are has beens.
You would be better off buying something newer Savante

Sounds like the old one from Fugro Denmark AS formerly Svitzer remember to blow the 3 inch of dust of it if its that one and very good luck to ya, your wallet wont stay full for long!!!!

I would say that they are trying to clear away dead wood 😀
Svitzer had three Sprints , one was 101 and the other two containerised 103 systems. Sn # 28 and 29 .They were all good ( At one time while they had their own teams )
If your willing to spend five and a half K on a system why not buy a Falcon ?

That much 😯
I take it back Savante 😕
Don’t listen to a word I say 😕
Buy a phantom in stead 😀

The more I think about it the sprint sounds quite tasty, got any more details? is this one of the four that are presently up for sale? 😉

The Monkey