November 8, 2007
Key Largo Bay Marriott Beach Resort
Key Largo, Florida, USA
Thursday, November 10, 2005
This year, VideoRay is adding an extra day of dedicated applications-specific training to VIPS. These one day "Mini-Schools" enable you to take the knowledge and skills learned during VIPS and apply them to the real world of Micro-ROV operations.
Thursday's Situational Hands-on Workshops
Attendees must register for this in addition to the VIPS confernece. Thursday's Situational workshops are included in all of the Enhanced Registration Packages.
- Informative - Loaded with valuable tactics, techniques, and tips
- Focused - Hands-on, scenario driven training sessions to replicate real life situations
- Intense - Full day of on-topic training
- Professional - Taught by industry experts with significant Micro-ROV experience
- Exclusive - Attendance is limited to a small group for each Situational Workshop
WORKSHOP ONE
Wreck Survey
This number of registrations is limted for this workshop.
During this workshop, attendees will discuss finding, documenting and exploring shipwrecks.
Discussions will include:
- Wide Area Search techniques
- Side Scan Sonar Technology
- Wreck Identification
- Rules, Laws and governments
- After the classroom breaks attendees will go out to the Spiegel Grove, a 510 foot retired Navy ship. The ship is now the backbone of the Key Largo new reef ecosystems. It is located six miles offshoreThe class will side scan the wreck, review the side scan imagery, VideoRay and dive the wreck for a dive plan developed in the morning class room. The cost of air is included in your package.Other dive services or rental may require additional fees.
WORKSHOP TWO
Port Security
- Includes classes taught by the United States Coast Guard and St. Louis County Sheriff's Office
- Participate in United States Coast Guard Micro-ROV training drills or a mock drowning search and recovery scenario.
- This Mini-School is open only to members of the military, law enforcement and public safety organizations.
Program includes:
Mission Debriefings, Brief case-study presentations by several USCG Maritime Safety and Security Teams (MSSTs) and other users about their uses of VideoRays, Roundtable Discussion of Micro-ROV Applications in Port Security, Discussion of several timely topics, including: Underwater Security Concerns - Targets, Vulnerabilities and Micro-ROV roles, Optimal ROV Team Organization - Number of crew, Duties, Training required and , Maintaining skill level (retraining and replacements), Equipment Logistics - Deployment options (land/vessel), Highly recommended accessories, Evidence Collection Underwater, Learn how to approach a scene of an underwater incident and record, retrieve and preserve evidence for further investigation.
- Choose one of these two outdoor working sessions "All Hands on Deck" Drill Stations
- Rotate through four simultaneous hands-on stations with various scenarios
- Retrieval Exercise - A highly valuable asset has been dropped in the water and needs to be retrieved
- Pier Sweep Exercise - A pier needs to be inspected for improvised devices
- Obstacle Course - A timed skills building challenge
- Vessel Inspection - the running gear appears fouled and the situation must be analyzed
- Drowning Search and Recovery
In this mock drowning scenario, participants will plan organize and execute a wide area search for a drowning victim using a combination of side scan sonar, VideoRay and their own ingenuity.
WORKSHOP THREE
Tank Inspection
- Includes classes taught by J&S Utility Consultants
Agenda includes: Welcome, Introductions, Tank Inspection Business Overview, Tank Inspection Process Overview, Tank Inspection Micro-ROV Requirements, Tank Inspection Field Trip
Particpants will inspect a working 1/2 million gallon potable water steel tank (Courtesy of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority).
Agenda addresses:
- Tank Inspection Business Overview
- Tank Inspection Process Overview
- Tank Inspection Micro-ROV Requirements
- Tank Inspection Field Trip
- Particpants will inspect a working 1/2 million gallon potable water steel tank (Courtesy of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority)
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