Kilts and ROVs

[Calgacus]

It's really not often that kilts and ROVs cross paths. ROVs are Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles, and it's the industry in which I work.

Anyway, I stumbled across this article about some (kilted) students and their entry into a competition for schools, colleges and universities to design and build their own ROVs.

http://issuu.com/rovplanet/docs/rovp...380389/9140679

[MacEanruig]

Interesting choice, but when your craft is named "The Swimming Haggis," I suppose you'd better don kilts.

[Norbo]

LOL its different.

[OC Richard]

"The Swimming Haggis"

A rare window, actually, into the evolution of the Haggis: the primordial swimming Haggis, which evolved into the Permian amphibious Haggis, which evolved into the land-dwelling Haggis with which we're familiar.

[Tarheel]

"Geeks, Nerds and engineers, Oh My!" If the Va. Tech lads can design, build and compete in concrete canoes, these kilted lads only need "conquer the depths" to establish their realm in the science world. Tally Ho the Swimming Haggis.

[Alan H]

Now, this is interesting. I was involved with testing and using a small ROV in the late 1990's early 2000's as part of the Marine Science Institute here in California.

[creagdhubh]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing, Richard.

Cheers,

[Calgacus]

Now, this is interesting. I was involved with testing and using a small ROV in the late 1990's early 2000's as part of the Marine Science Institute here in California.

Oh wow! Small world!

Here's some pics of the bad boys I work with.

3 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

04AW024 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

43 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

P1050934 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

2013-11-01 09.50.18 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

DSC01075 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

2014-09-18 08.54.34 by Richard the Rogue, on Flickr

[Alan H]

Ha! These are about three orders of magnitude more sophisticated than what we had.

Our gizmo was about 3 feet x 2 feet, and had three video cameras, a small chamber for water collection, remote salinity and that was about it. It was connected to a control unit with a 200 foot long cable, so, not really "remote". It was to be used for simple stuff in and around San Francisco Bay and Delta. I think the developer, who was literally a science geek gone off the deep end, spent about $1500 USA on it, in the early 1990's. It did get used a few times for stuff like inspecting sewage outfalls, ship hulls and so on.