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ChevronTexaco ‘Blind Faith’ Survey Completed with C – Surveyor I AUV
24/02/2005
C & C Technologies, Inc. recently completed ChevronTexaco’s Blind Faith hazard survey with its C-Surveyor I AUV. The scope of work included a development survey in Mississippi Canyon 695 & 696 and a pipeline hazard survey from Blind Faith to the Na-Kika development. The C-Surveyor I AUV, launched from her mother ship R/V Rig Supporter, collected high-resolution multi-beam, subbottom and side scan sonar data in water depths ranging from 1900 metres to 2100 metres.
Presently, the R/V Rig Supporter is completing numerous Gulf of Mexico projects before mobilizing to Brasil for ChevronTexaco’s Frade FEED Project. Upon completion of the survey, the R/V Rig Supporter will transit to West Africa, while C & C finishes assembling its next generation C-Surveyor II AUV for Gulf of Mexico operations. To date, C & C has performed over 40,000 kilometres of deepwater AUV surveys on 71 different projects since January 2001.
Oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason discovered and recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor.
Jason, designed and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the National Deep Submergence Facility, utilised a prototype, high-definition still and video camera to capture the powerful event nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, in an area bounded by Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. (Courtesy NSF, NOAA, and WHOI Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab)
