Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (FET) announces the sale of a Sub-Atlantic™ Mojave™ Observation Remote Operated Vehicle System (ROV) to the St. Clair County, Michigan Sheriff’s Office Marine Division.
The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office maintains a Marine Division with over 50 part-time officers who are responsible for patrolling St. Clair County’s waterways and maintaining a dive team responsible for search and recovery efforts on the County’s waterways, which include Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River.
“The Mojave is a valuable tool for the team to have,” said Wayne Bromate, dive team leader, “because it can withstand conditions that humans cannot. There are approximately 110 miles of shoreline and waterways in the County, much of it a busy commercial waterway with international borders. The Mojave will be deployed in higher-risk exploratory missions, such as diving beneath the ice in the wintertime and observing possible explosive devices. The Mojave is the most powerful observation ROV for its size” says Bromate . “Navigating the swift currents in the St Clair River requires the use of an ROV with more power than the ROVs employed by other dive teams in Michigan. The Mojave was the most powerful of the observation ROVs we tested under actual conditions.”
Forum’s Subsea Technologies’ product offering ranges from electric observation class ROVs to large hydraulic work-class vehicles used for inspection, survey and deep-water construction, as well as other remote intervention technologies and services.
About Forum Energy Technologies
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a global provider of manufactured technologies and applied products to the energy industry. With approximately 3,200 employees strategically located throughout the world, FET is well positioned to provide the products and technologies essential to solving the increasingly complex challenges of the subsea, drilling and production sectors of the oil and gas industry.
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff , January 17, 2012; Image: Forum