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Remora III and the xBot® Micro-ROV

Remora III

Remora ROVPhoenix’s Remora III ROV system operates to water depths of 6,000 MSW and was designed and built in-house to meet our unique requirements. Our ROV personnel were heavily involved in the design, relying on their many years of experience to ensure that the final design met the hazardous requirements of operating in extreme water depths while maximizing reliability.

Remora III is a 40-horsepower (hp) vehicle with state-of-the-art sensors and telemetry systems and equipped with dual manipulators. The vehicle configuration offers a small physical size coupled with axial lateral thruster geometry, permitting precisely controlled maneuvers in tight spaces and minimizing the probability of entrapment or entanglement.

The fiber-optic cable utilized by the Remora III contains 3 power conductors and 3 single-mode optical fibers. Two fibers are available for customer use for integrating additional customer or Phoenix-supplied equipment to meet job-specific needs.  The cable is stored on a winch integrated with a self-contained, compact, air-transportable handling system, featuring an electro-active level wind, self-erecting ‘A’ frame with docking head, and electro-hydraulic power unit.

Finally, the compact design and small footprint allow the system to be easily transported anywhere in the world by air or sea, and quickly mobilized aboard vessels of opportunity to provide cost-effective support for a wide range of underwater tasks.

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xBot® Micro-ROV

xBot ROVPhoenix’s xBot® is a specialized micro-ROV characterized by its small footprint, high maneuverability, and low cost. This inspection and video documentation ROV was designed and built by Phoenix engineers to penetrate hard-to-access or dangerous areas, such as the interior spaces of sunken shipwrecks.  Our xBot® series was made famous by James Cameron, who tasked Phoenix to build four xBot®s for a documentary he produced for Discovery Channel called “The Last Mysteries of Titanic”.

Designed to operate from an underwater host platform (ROV, sled, or submersible), the battery-powered xBot® requires only a fiber optic link. The xBot® eliminates the use of pressure vessels and penetrators (except for the camera) by using oil-compensated, pressure-tolerant components, allowing for a reduction in the overall vehicle size, weight, and cost.  In 2010, the xBot® was successfully deployed to conduct a forensic inspection of the control room of the Deepwater Horizon, the drilling rig involved in the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier that year.

Other mission capabilities include:

  • Internal Pipe Inspection
  • Shipwreck Penetration
  • Submerged Structure Penetration
  • Add-on Visual Tool for Manned Submersibles
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