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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following education pages have been created primarily from material that has been published in the new book Operational Effectiveness of Unmanned Underwater Systems, recently released on CD-ROM by the Marine Technology Society, Remotely Operated Vehicle Committee. Accordingly, it is only fair that all that have contributed should be thanked again. Therefore, I would like to thank the following individuals and companies for contributing time and materials to the production of our CD-ROM book in the following areas: Academic: MBARI, WHOI, FAU, MIT for the use of their web page information and photos. Special thanks to Debbie Meyer of MBARI for providing their most recent material and artwork. Acoustic Positioning: Keith Vickery of Sonardyne Inc. for making his seminar materials on "Acoustic Positioning/Measuring Systems and Associated Redundancy and Failure Modes" available. Australia ROV Research: John Penrose, Director, Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia for his excellent input. Cables: Gary Brown and Cal Peters of South Bay Cable for their text and artwork. Cable Burial: Howie Doyle of Underwater magazine for contribution of excellent material and photos that made up the bulk of this section. AT&T for material and artwork. Cable Detection: Andy Mattice of Innovatum for his text and artwork on cable location and sensing. Inshore Operations: Dirk Rosen and Dr. Philipe Ballou of Deep Ocean Engineering for providing information and artwork. Lasers: Norm Estabrook of Science Applications International Corporation for providing the text and graphics for the section on laser line scanners. Lighting: Bob Novak of Deepsea Power & Light for providing text and graphics on underwater lighting. Manipulators: Tyler Schilling and Wes Gerriets of Schilling Robotics for an excellent section on underwater manipulators Offshore Operations: Dick Frisbie and Charles Royce of Oceaneering Technologies Inc., and John Edwards and Cliff Chamblee of Canyon Offshore for their information and excellent artwork. ROVs: Perry Tritech and Dan White of Technology Systems Corporation (publisher of Ocean News and Technology magazine) for their excellent material, photographs, tables and artwork which appears throughout the entire publication. ROV Operations and Safety: Charles Royce and Oceaneering Technologies Inc., for providing their ROV operating and safety procedures; input that will benefit all who heed the cogent advice. Also to Judith Patton of Judith Patton Public Relations for providing a copy of the Code of Practice for the Safe and Efficient Operation of Remotely Operated Vehicles. Sonar: John P. Fish of American Underwater Search & Survey (AUSS) for his contribution of text and graphics and permission to use many of the images from his excellent publication "Sound Underwater Images," which is one of the best guides to the generation and interpretation of side scan sonar data available. Space: Dick Frisbie and Oceaneering for text and artwork on ROV technology transfer to the space industry. Training: Barbara Fletcher and Imetrix for their material and artwork and Dick Frisbie of Oceaneering. Underwater Photography: Chuck Strickland and Kongsberg Simrad Ltd. for use of the material from the publication Offshore Photography (originally published by Chuck Strickland, founder of Photosea Systems Inc.) Bill Hersey of Benthos for providing material and artwork on their cameras. World Wide Web Sites: Jack Jaeger of Custom Multimedia Products for maintaining the extensive database provided in Appendix C-1. Thanks to the following who provided artwork (see list of figures for specific contributions) and/or information used throughout this publication:
And, special thanks to Robert Wernli of First Centurion Enterprises for over two years of assembling material, writing and editing the Operational Effectiveness of Unmanned Underwater Systems, and producing these educational pages for your use. Drew Michel |