This AC-ROV has two specific inspection roles with the Huta organisation. The unit is deployed in a health and safety capacity for dive site inspection of hazardous and confined environments such as water intakes. the dive site is inspected and mapped prior to the dive team entering the water, with the AC-ROV monitoring the dive team when work is underway. Secondly, the vehicle enables site engineers and decision makers to view submerged targets and work progress first hand, minimising disruption to the work site and ahead of mobilising the dive team.

The popularity of the AC-ROV micro submersible in the Remote Visual Inspection (RVI) market has been reinforced with the sale of a system to RVI specialists Dacon Inspection Services of Norway.

Dacon purchased the AC-ROv against the successful award of an inspection project involving the Teekay Petrojarl owned Petrojarl Varg FPSO. due to the current high price for oil and gas, fleet owners do not want such vessels docked for inspection. The Varg, which can produce for 15 years without being docked, will have the interior of its sea chest, including the butterfly valve, inspected by the AC-ROV while at sea.

The AC-ROV is claimed to be the only micro ROV small enough and with the required mobility to successfully complete this essential inspection task.

Commenting on the popularity of the AC-ROV, Callum Magee of AC-CESS said, 'We have seen a strong trend confirming the use of our vehicles in applications that previously were the domain of pole cameras, bore scopes and small crawler vehicles. The AC-ROV enables clients to get very high quality videos of targets in what were previously no go areas. The mobility and ingress capability of the AC-ROV is unmatched for ROV's in the RVI market.'