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2 unusual facts about Submersible


Edward Robert Armstrong

However, Mr Armstrong's efforts with DuPont and Sun Ship Building, owned by Sun Oil, led his ideas and basic designs to be used by the oil industry to create the Semi-submersible off shore oil rig.

Service robot

The Woods Hole Sentry can descend to 4,500 metres and allows a higher payload as it does not need a support ship or the oxygen and other facilities demanded by human piloted vessels.


13677 Alvin

The asteroid's name refers to the deep-ocean submersible vehicle Alvin.

1988 British International Helicopters Sikorsky S-61N crash

The helicopter left the Safe Felicia semi-submersible oil rig in the Forties oilfield at 13:45 with 2 pilots and a full load of 19 passengers for the one hour flight to Sumburgh Airport on the Mainland of Shetland.

Calyptogena magnifica

Calyptogena magnifica was first described by Kenneth Boss and Ruth Turner of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, in 1980, following its discovery during research dives by the submersible vehicle DSV Alvin to the floor of the Pacific Ocean in 1977 and 1979.

Clelia

The Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution submersible used to extract the bell from the shipwreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

DCV Balder

In 1978 Occidental’s Piper Alpha was the first platform installation with a Semi Submersible Crane Vessel.

J. Val Klump

He was the first person to reach the deepest spot in Lake Superior, a depth of 1333 feet (733 feet below sea level), which is also the lowest point in the United States, on July 30, 1985 while aboard the R/V Seward Johnson with the Johnson Sea Link-II submersible.

Jason Jr.

was first used in the exploration of the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1986, during which it was attached to and controlled from aboard the DSV Alvin, a United States Navy manned deep-ocean research submersible operated by WHOI.

Morcon

Prosafe, an owner/operator of semi-submersible accommodation and service rigs, which was originally known as Morcon

Pisces-class deep submergence vehicle

Pisces VII and Pisces IX were built in 1975 and used by Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR for about 10 years, until being replaced by the MIR submersibles.

Prestige oil spill

By 2004, engineers had removed the oil still in the tanker by drilling small holes in the wreck, using remotely operated submersible vehicles (ROVs) like the one that originally explored the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Scarlet Knight

RU-27, an experimental robot submersible named after the teams

Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

In 1999, the DeepWorker 2000 submersible was used to quantify the species of fish as well as the space resources within the Sanctuary.

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

The book states that Robert Fulton invented the submarine (p. 98), but this statement distorts the history of submarines; various people had envisioned submarines in earlier eras, and a few had been built (such as the Turtle).

Thunderhorse

Thunder Horse PDQ, a semi-submersible oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico


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