WRECKS REVEAL THEMSELVES TO MANAWANUI
Over the past month, personnel from HMNZS MATATAUA have been training on one of HMNZS MANAWANUI’s capabilities – the Saab Seaeye Cougar XT, the Dive Hydrographic vessel’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This capability, permanently housed within MANAWANUI and launched from its own side door in the hull, is a vehicle equipped with high-definition cameras, sonar, high precision acoustic positioning (HiPAP) beacons and a tooling skid with manipulator arms. The ROV’s underwater operations include surveying shipwrecks and the seabed, placing beacons as reference points for MANAWANUI’s Dynamic Position (DP) and interacting with the crane to lift objects off the seabed. All of the footage and data captured by the ROV is analysed real-time and recorded by a suite of computers and screens located in the mission processing room (MPR) aboard MANAWANUI.
HMNZS MANAWANUI’s ROV is launched.
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