Table of Contents

I The Oil Company View.- 1. ROVs —The Management Contractor’s Requirements.- 2. Designing Subsea Equipment for ROV Intervention.- II Operational Limitations and How to Overcome Them.- 3. ROVs and Moonpools An Operator’s Viewpoint.- 4. Using an ROV for Simultaneous Lay and Burial of Subsea Umbilicals.- 5. Measurement and Analysis of Hydrodynamics of ROVs’ Tether Cable.- 6. An Integrated Approach to Operations.- 7. Planning and Conducting Combined Diver/ROV Operations.- III Safety, Certification and Insurance.- 8.(I) Risk Management and Insurance for the Underwater Contractor.- 8.(II) Risk Management and Insurance for the Underwater Contractor.- 9. Making the ROV Electrically Safe — In and Out of the Water.- 10. ROVs Increase Diver Safety.- 11. Improved Efficiency and Loss Prevention Through ROV Simulation.- 12. Operational Limitations — Training for Offshore ROV Employees.- 13. ROV Training and Certification: Their Effects on Technology Transfer.- IV Sub Systems and Payload Integration.- 14. The Application of ROVs to Underwater Welding Repair Tasks.- 15. Dredging Tools for ROVs.- 16. An Integrated Approach to Subsea Intervention.- 17. An Integrated Visual Imaging System.- 18. Optimization of High Performance Subsea Cleaning System.- 19. A Cable Location and Tracking System for Cirrus.- V Future Commercial Developments.- 20. The Hardware and Software Development of a Fully Adaptive ROV Autopilot.- 21. The Development of a Remotely Operated Crack Inspection Systems — ROCIS.- 22. A Free Swimming ROV.- 23. The Evolution of Rigworker.- VI Military, Scientific and Non-Oil Related Use of Buoys.- 24. ROV Acoustic Position Reference System for Hydro-electric Dam Inspection.- 25. Eastport International’s Air India Salvage Effort.- 26. A Novel Approach to ObjectClassification for Military Requirements.- 27. JASON: An Integrated Approach to ROV and Control System Design.- 28. Some Applications of ROVs in Fisheries Science.- 29. A Small Lightweight ROV for Studies Under Arctic Ice.