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New ECA ROV
French ROV specialists ECA of Toulon have announced development of a new 3,000m depth-rated system, the Alistar 3000. Designed for deepwater inspection tasks, it is claimed to offer operators greater flexibility and faster operation compared with other systems requiring important infrastructure and equipment aboard a ship.
An additional aim of the hastily- convened two-week venture, which also included ROV inspection operations, was to detect and map existing routes of several telecom, electrical and water utilities to enable establishment of an anchor plan prior to arrival of a repair barge.
Suitable for applications such as pipeline inspection, riser/ mooring lines and touch down monitoring, and not requiring an umbilical and winch, the system is able to record video and sonar data while tracking equipment undergoing inspection and producing data for post-processing analysis.
