One prototype lets ROV pilots see the area they're working in with a three-dimensional computer monitor.
One of the people "piloting" the ROV said seabed smokestacks remind him of "the industrial Midlands".
This remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is equipped with an HDTV camera and receives power from the ship.
On another ROV survey in the Gulf of Mexico, the team came across the deep sea manefish (Paracaristius sp.).
BBC: Earth News - Giant bizarre deep sea fish filmed in Gulf of Mexico
" The log says "ROV has only been able to confirm there is no visible flow from the well.
Other researchers, too, had sightings, including one from a small submersible and another from a Remotely Oerated Vehicle (ROV).
April 24: Coast Guard reports that an ROV has found the sunk rig.
Deploying a remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) in the Cayman Trough, they stumbled across a previously-unknown site nearly 5000m below the surface.
Additional measures are planned with the ROV to shut in the well.
Oceaneering has planned improvements to its ROV designs, and is updating the robots in the Gulf today with new equipment all the time, Campbell says.
In the immense pressure of the sea three miles down, the ROV, known as ISIS, was gently steered around the vents, taking pictures and gathering samples.
Sure, you could use an ROV to feel like a regular Jacques Cousteau (or James Cameron, for that matter), but nothing beats the real deal: a personal submarine.
One ROV got a saw lodged in the side of the leaking riser pipe in early June, for example, causing BP to rethink its strategy for trying to stop the gushing leak.
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.
ENGADGET: Britain's Isis ROV set to trawl the depths of Antarctica
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