“Greensea’s OPENSEA control system is crucial to our success for extreme deep diving operations. Never before have I experienced an ROV control environment as unified, configurable or integrated as this one,” said Robert Kraft, director of subsea operations for Vulcan. “Greensea has a solid, reliable product, and I consider them a valued asset to all of our subsea systems.”
Greensea technology provided unprecedented control for the ROV and helped create operational efficiencies for the pilots. Cutting-edge features essential to streamlining the mission’s operations included:
- An automated ascent and descent winch control system that allowed the pilots to set a desired vehicle depth and automatically descend or ascend to that level.
- An automated black box that turned on and off when the vehicle entered and exited the water, providing a comprehensive recording of the mission’s telemetry data, for both the AUV and the ROV.
- Synchronized pilot and co-pilot chairs with touchscreen displays that supported simultaneous operation of lights, cameras, and hydraulics, while enabling vehicle control to be switched between pilots.
- A multi-vehicle user interface.