Video Footage
VideoRay has proven its ease of use, durability
and versatility in missions around the globe. From water
tanks to arctic
seas, VideoRay units are deployed rapidly to record the underwater
world.
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Exploring An American Icon: The USS Arizona
Inside the WWII battleship USS Arizona, drawings still lay on
desks as if they had been stretched out yesterday. Clothes hang
in closets. Tools are laid down, as if to be picked up again
momentarily. Sixty years after the bombing that claimed 1,177
lives, these images were seen through the VideoRay, which sneaked
through portholes, air ducts, manholes, and openings created
by bomb blasts to explore the ship's interior during two scientific
missions.
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Homeland Security and
Hull Inspections
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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Tracking
the Elusive Whale Shark
Needing only minutes to drop the VideoRay into the water, Mark
Miller was able to capture video of the elusive Whale Shark. Miller,
a research specialist who works for the Coastal Studies Institute of
LSU, is studying the marine life that lives and thrives on the legs of
oil and gas platforms. (*Note: There is no audio track for this clip.)
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Finding
a B29 Plane in Lake Mead
The National Park Service Submerged Resources Center (SRC) and
Lake Mead National Recreation Area explored an Army Air Force B-29 bomber,
which crashed in Lake Mead over 54 years ago. The VideoRay gathered video
as it flew in and around the aircraft, which is located at a depth that
is difficult for divers to access for sustained periods of time.
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Tank
Inspections Without Getting Wet
In the dark of the tank, Steve van Meter pilots a VideoRay down
a 3-foot wide section of standpipe for nearly 150 feet. Colonies of corrosion
wave out from the interior steel, looking like a section of Titanic or
a coral reef. When the VideoRay completes survey of seams, cables, and
pipelines,
van Meter has captured the entire inspection on videotape and no one
got wet.
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Commercial
Inspections and No Danger to Divers
VideoRay can inspect culverts inaccessible to
divers, drop into dams, perform pipe surveys,
and much more – without agitating sediments
or endangering human life. Weighing just 8 pounds,
the VideoRay is easily transported to site in
its two carry cases and powered from a small
generator or local power source. For inland or
offshore projects, VideoRay is an investment
that pays for itself again and again.
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Shedding
Light on the Warren Mystery
VideoRay worked with Olympic National Park Ranger Dan Pontbriand to uncover
more detail in the Blanche and Russell Warren mystery, whereby a couple
disappeared 73 years ago in Lake Crescent. The explorations with the
8-pound swimming video camera revealed fine details from inside and around
the submerged car, including what Pontbriand suspects are the de-calcified
bones of Blanche Warren.
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Treacherous
Conditions in Search and Rescue Missions
On June 4, 1999, Josh Haugen fell off a watercraft
in Pactola Reservoir near Rapid City South Dakota.
VideoRay was used by local authorities as a new
search and rescue tool that is an alternative
to sending divers in the water and risking lives
in treacherous conditions. During the all-day
searches, three VideoRays
were run from land and boat to cover 800 square
meters of lake floor, which is littered with
20-foot trees and jagged rocks.
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The Fish
Farmer's Friend
Using the VideoRay, fish farms can document underwater conditions and
better comply with government regulations. Highly maneuverable, VideoRay
is suitable for inspecting salmon, halibut, and scallop farms. Perform
surveys of seabeds to establish new sites for farming and inspect and
sample polluted sites without spreading diseases. Inspects cages, quays,
moorings, underwater pipelines and cables.
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Report Examines VideoRay Role in Bush Boat Investigation
The VideoRay ROV was used for searching an underwater area at the Yacht
Harbor Marina in Austin, Texas, where a fire on December 16, 2000, damaged
boats belonging to President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary
of Commerce Don Evans. The search was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco
and Firearms (BATF) Recovery Team to recover items of possible value
to the investigation. Sending the VideoRay ROV into the target area eliminated
risks to divers, keeping them from entangling in cables and steel supports
and preventing dive hazards such as hypothermia, drowning, decompression,
and accidental injury.
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Voyaging
with the Odyssey
The VideoRay is onboard the ninety-three foot research vessel Odyssey as a key piece of scientific equipment during a five year tour of the
world’s equatorial oceans. The VideoRay is deployed and operated
by just one person from the Odyssey or dingy, providing views of “places
and situations that would be difficult if not impossible for a diver,” according
to the daily log entries by Genevieve and Chris Johnson at www.pbs.org/odyssey.
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VideoRay
for Wreck Dives and Recreation
VideoRay is ideal for boat owners who would like to inspect hull condition
and anchor security, or explore the undersea world -- from the comfort
and safety of the deck or dock. Used while the boat is moored or in port,
the VideoRay is a fun diversion for boat passengers of any age. The VideoRay
is an excellent dive buddy for divers to record diving adventures. Because
it does not create bubbles, it does not scare away sea life.
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