It is not something that you can see and touch except using a remotely operated vehicle.
This remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is equipped with an HDTV camera and receives power from the ship.
Remotely operated vehicle pilots must devise painstaking, step-by-step procedures to deploy the equipment.
To pluck them from the ocean, Bezos used Remotely Operated Vehicles (underwater drones) operated from a command ship on the surface.
Five thousand feet below the surface of the ocean, we were at the mercy of remotely operated vehicles in order to change that situation.
One reason why all this is taking time is that there are now up to 14 remotely operated underwater vehicles working around the well.
Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer at Florida State University who has worked with remotely operated vehicles in his research, says the robots can't replicate human dexterity.
When the drill unit sank on Thursday, we immediately and intensely investigated by remotely operated vehicles the entire 5, 000 feet of pipe that's on the floor of the ocean.
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The Coast Guard's efforts to come to grips with what was happening almost one mile below the surface of the sea were complicated by conflicting reports from remotely operated vehicles.
The company deployed the sonar on its torpedo-like Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle and then used a video-equipped remotely operated vehicle owned by Submersible Systems Inc. to inspect any promising radar targets.
More than 6, 300 vessels are currently responding on site, including skimmers, tugs, barges, and recovery vessels to assist in containment and cleanup efforts in addition to dozens of aircraft, remotely operated vehicles, and multiple mobile offshore drilling units.
The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.
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The momentum is due in part to greater taxonomy efforts, a growing number of researchers involved in describing new species, and new technologies allowing them to access previously unexplored areas (including improved diving gear and remotely operated submersible vehicles).
We've seen mechanical devices creep through the inside of intestines, huge mounds of dirt, and even through the San Francisco Bay, but now a British deep-diving remotely operated vehicle ( ROV) is getting set to probe the depths of Antarctica.
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Deploying a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) in the Cayman Trough, they stumbled across a previously-unknown site nearly 5000m below the surface.
The French transport ministry has said that the ship Ile de Sein, which is equipped with a remotely-operated submarine, will leave Cape Verde on 21 April to begin retrieving parts of the wreckage.
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BP's technicians have been unable to activate the blow-out preventer, essentially a massive valve that must be operated remotely by robot submarines.
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