Safe
Efficient Underwater Security Inspection
The
safety of ports, harbors, bridges, and
vessels is a top priority for International
Security,
above water and below. Proven at the US
Customs, Coast Guard, and Corps of Engineers.
The VideoRay
Security Package is a portable,
cost effective system supplied by Subnet
that can be operated by one or two persons.
Underwater security
sweeps can be performed quickly, reliably,
and without the cost and inconvenience
of divers. With the addition
of the Desert Star Positioning System,
a highly accurate and repeatable hull
or bottom inspection can be accomplished
quickly and inexpensively.
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Easy
Rapid Deployment
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Rapid
Mobilisation
The
Benefit
The Complete Packag
ready to Mobilize |
Small,
rapid and efficient mobilisation
and deployment, small footprint
(The entire system weighs less than 70 pounds
and packs neatly in two rolling
Pelican cases that can be carried in a car
trunk or helicopter, or checked as airline
baggage and transported by one
person) makes the SubNet Services VideoRay
ROV offshore inspection package and attachments
such as a Thickness Gauge extremely
cost effective, for those quick
one off jobs, or even feasible now as a
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Quick
Hire
SubNet
can hire the system with or without Operators
who may if required also be CSWIP Inspection
Qualified.
Attachments
for Metal Thickness Readings, Sonar and
Mapping Software.
High Resolution Camera
DVD Picture, Position and Depth Recording
- Engineer Talkover |
Inspection
- Mapping - Recording - Reporting
SubNet using one or two persons on
the dock or deck of a boat along
with SubNets VideoRay the 8-pound ROV
(remotely operated vehicle) and Mapping
Software can now inspect
Vessels sailing from Port to Port
or stationary Dams, Bridges, Ports
and Waterways. The submersible
vehicle is connected to a 500-foot long
tether and outfitted with a video camera
that relays crisp video from underwater
to a monitor. Getting into tight places
that are inaccessible to divers, VideoRay
can be sent into the water to inspect for
explosives before ships dock. Imaging
sonar can detect items, and VideoRay inspects
the targets without endangering divers.
VideoRay used in conjunction with scanning
sonar and GPS can quickly and precisely
locate and identify plumes of divers or
targets. A manipulator arm that
can be mounted to the submersible can pick
up objects up to of 100 lbs./50kgs.
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display of searched areas of Ship,
Dam, Bridge, Port or bottom areas
mapped and recorded.
 Live
High Quality Video Display from
ROV Recorded to Digital Video for
us to assemble reports.
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In
Port Bustamante, Jamaica last year, three divers
whose job it was to inspect the hull of vessels
as part of the anti-narcotic procedure were
killed to prevent them from investigating and
discovering contraband. To cut the threat to
divers and their families, Security Administrators
used the System - VideoRay ROV to have performed,
diver-less inspections.
Steve van Meter, a Hazardous Duty Robotics Specialist
from NASA/Kennedy Space Center, has worked on
three missions with the US Customs Contraband
Enforcement team at Port Canaveral, Florida,
to inspect ships for which the US Customs had
intelligence of carrying drugs. In the absence
of dive teams to perform the searches, a VideoRay
was sent into the bilge areas, the ballast tanks,
and then on a complete survey of the bottom
of the ship. During the search of the bilges,
the VideoRay was set up on the deck of the ship.
The search of the ship's bottom was performed
from the dock. According to van Meter, a great
deal of time was saved during the inspection
of the ballast tank because there was no need
to drain and flush the tank and then put people
inside. The oil does not harm the VideoRay.
"The
US Customs team reported that using the VideoRay
saved them a lot of time and effort and allowed
them to search areas they wouldn't be able to
without divers," said van Meter. "The
searches were done safely and quickly."
During his survey of the bottom of the vessel,
van Meter was looking for unusual spots and
new welds on the barnacle-encrusted surface.
He checked the prop shaft and bow thruster for
places a package or parasitic devise could be
stowed. Van Meter was able to check the entire
bottom and verify the propeller shaft condition
without ever getting in the water or hiring
dive teams.
The system has also worked to good use with
law police dive teams to search docks, piers,
and ships. Also during training exercise, the
VideoRay can be sent into the water with divers.
The divers can be taught how to grab the VideoRay
submersible and point it at items of interest.
The dive teams being prepared in the event a
future security sweep is needed in a port.
SubNet
can use the VideoRay to recover items of possible
value to an investigation eliminating risks
to divers, keeping them from entangling in cables
and steel supports and preventing dive hazards
such as hypothermia, drowning, decompression,
and accidental injury.
The
system has been proven world wide e.g. State
and Local Governments, including the Corps of
Engineers, NCIS, the Navy, US Customs, and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. SubNet
can perform inspections and security sweeps
of hulls, docks, mooring buoys, bridges, dams,
nuclear power plants and other submerged structures
with the VideoRay around the world.
SubNet
using its VideoRay and the Hi Tech Hull Inspection
system from Desert Star allows precision navigation
and location of any target or condition on a
ships hull. A small team can quickly and methodically
inspect either an entire ship hull or only those
areas which are the most likely to be tampered
with. Because the Desert Star equipment is very
light and rapidly deployed, technicians can
accomplish the inspection while the ship is
still miles from port. This practice enhances
safety while minimizing disruptions to shipping
and dock usage scheduling.
The system is less intrusive than a diver and
can be used in sensitive areas such as archaeological
surveys and fish farming, in addition to in
pipelines, culverts, ship hull inspections,
water and chemical tanks, polluted waterways,
wreck location and surveys, and on deep dives
or as an observer and sentinel for divers working
or decompressing in the water.
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