Another opined Oceaneer wearing his Biggles helmet and goggles with nothing better to do on his Rigswat job than polishing his trusty keyboard and ejaculate trival pursuit questions. I’ll be on best behaviour and answer this one.
OI fell in love with the Hysub Garage and brought the rights to calling it a Hydra as it fitted their need to gain rig-spport market share. Its claim to fame was its frame surrounding a ROV that could be launched in "adverse" weather conditions and recovered without damage. Damage meant the ROV would survive and with luck the garage wasn’t destroyed on entry /recovery. The bonus was if the heave got so bad you could dump it on bottom and suck the ROV in without damaging tether. Of course it also allows an ROV recovery if the Garage should break down. A lot of weak knee’d Supv’s in days of roughy toughy head banging Company Men sang high phase for their garaged ROV’s. Manly they lacked the balls to stand up and stop unsafe acts which endangered both equipment and men.
The rest of the industry saw it differently and were more interested in doing lumpsum, turnkey, construction projects where crap got bolted on left , right centre, over, under and in the rear.
Each to their own, you won’t see a garage system used for pipe touchdown, you won’t see it doing pipeline survey done with a full survey suite, you won’t see massive tooling packages, or anything that most people consider interesting work from a ROV person perspective. A tophat design just allows more job options. It is the better design for an ROV company if only someone could design it not to break down!
Now get back to work, you’re supposed to be on shift!
Air Commodore Raymond
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