There are many safety advantages that ROVs can provide over divers. This short article will point the advantages of ROVs over human divers:
A Vessel Warranty Surveyor provides independent third-party technical review and approval to any marine vehicle or structure, It is crucial to include surveyors from the planning stages through to the physical execution.
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In this video wee 24Marine.com surveyors conducting a Warranty survey on a Catamaran.
See the video below, our Orange ROV , from DELTA ROV.
Vehicle:
ROV allows us to do quick and safe underwater surveys, easy deployment, portable and easy to transport:
When planning dives, please consider the following elements:
In this video, we will check how a single man underwater survey is carried out.
We are very impressed and happy to share that Delta ROV has achieved the Remoted Piloting Challenge.
On these days of physical (social) distance, remote operations will be a key for the safety of our personnel in the field.
In the Video below, Souther Ocean Subsea from Australia and Delta ROV from Philipines conducted an ROV Operations remotely.
Thermo cameras allow us to see infrared and thermal energy that is always around us.
Visible Light It is like the tip of the Iceberg, with our eye we just see around 2.5% of the available out there.
We don’t perceive infrared (thermal energy) as they are no visible for our eye, as the spectrum that we eye can detect is very limited.
Infrared has about 30% of the available light spectrum, see image below:
In simple words, the main differences between visible Light and Thermo Energy:
It is very important to understand that Thermo Images are just for Surfaces, It doesn’t penetrate the objects neither bodies.
Every surface has different emissivity, depending on their surfaces.
Shiny surcafes has high reflectivity and low emissivity
Dark (opaque) surfaces has low reflectivity by high Emissivity
In the picture below can be noticed that emissivity is affected by surface colors.
In the Solar Panel generations business, Thermo inspection has a great role.
The more energy the panel absorb, the more efficient it is.
According to statistical analysis from various thermo experts, performing regular Thermo inspections can help to reduce energy loss by 15%, due to Broken cells, dust, and dirt.
As a bonus, we have included the emissivity tables we use for our inspections:
Why is necessary to conduct rigging surveys?
Rigging surveyor job is to check and review the key components of the boat system to ensure that is fit for purpose.
In general, a Rigging system survey has three objectives:
Regular service periods:
The regular service period is calculated by Insurance companies, flag states, Cost guard, and standards organizations, based on FATIGUE LOAD CYCLE of the rigging. The statistical data shows that rigging failure rates are higher after 10 years.
The picture below shows how a load cycle in the normal operating range, due to the large numbers of such cycles can cause cumulative damage to the material.
The 5 years inspection needs to be done with the mast un-stepped, as it is impossible to check key components (Terminal, plates, buckles, wires, stays, etc.) with the rigging fully un-assembled. Also, NDT (nondestructive Test) as a penetrant liquid test need to complete with the system on the floor.
The 10-year rigging checks need to be completed with all rigging wires replaced, due to the FATIGUE LOAD CYCLES, which normally cause Cracks, deformations that affect the structural properties of the rigging system.
See the video below where you can see many comon failures we have colledted during years of rigging surveys.
The list below shows the most common issues found after rigging collapses:
Below few notes from the Rigging experts:
The US Coast Guard published a Marine Safety Alert 07-09, call SAILBOAT RIGGING DANGER, you can download on the link below, has many useful information and tips for any sailor.
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24 marine Smart surveyors are the local specialist on hull surveys.
We assesst hull conditions by using state of the art technologies.
Ensuring we can get on details the hull conditions.
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Now days most survey tasks involve robots that are designed in such way that they remove human intervention from labour intensive and hazardous work environment.
Sometimes they are also used to inspect inaccessible spaces / confines places which are generally impossible to access by humans.
Many pipes comes in the dangerous spaces because they carry toxic chemicals, fluids and most of the time has small internal diameter or bends which become inaccessible to human.
The complex internal geometry and hazard content constraints of pipes demand robots for inspection of such pipes in order to check corrosion level of pipe, recovery of usable parts from pipe interior, sampling of sludge and scale formation on pipe internal surface etc
In 24 Marine we have developed a Pipe Robot that ensure you are getting a pipe survey cost effective and reducing human exposure. we have developed virtual reality pipe inspection, that bring your pipes to real life.
Smart marine surveyors located at Panama, bringing smart technologies to industries.
Recently we have complated a Powerline survey using our Thermal Drone.