Submersible Technology: Adapting to Change : Proceedings of an international conference ('SUBTECH '87-- Adapting to Change') organized jointly by the Association of Offshore Diving Contractors and the Society for Underwater Technology, and held Aberdeen, UK, 10-12 November 1987.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Corporate Author: Society for Underwater Technology (SUT)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1988.
Series:Advances in underwater technology, ocean science, and offshore engineering ; v. 14.
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Table of Contents:
  • I An Overview of R & D, Past, Present and Future
  • 1 Sources of funding for research and development in oil and gas technology
  • 2 The funding of the Hydra-Lok swage pile connection development
  • 3 The drill support tooling module project
  • II Reassessment of Standards and Operating Practices
  • 4 Review of standards, codes, requirements and regulations
  • their impact on underwater projects
  • 5 Standardization
  • Norwegian experience by Nifo
  • Norsk Industriforening for Oljeselskap
  • 6 Code of practice for the safe and efficient operation of remotely operated vehicles
  • 7 Adapting ROV operations procedures to today's market
  • 8 Using project management as a tool
  • a necessity in today's underwater contracting industry
  • 9 The CSWIP scheme: a personal view from the Chairman of the Board
  • III Saturation Diving
  • 10 Higher efficiency through improved diver transportation
  • 11 Standards for underwater breathing apparatus
  • 12 Monitoring of bacterial status and antibacterial cleaning of saturation diving systems
  • 13 HYDRA 8: Pre-commercial hydrogen diving project
  • 14 Diver selection for deep dives (below 300 msw)
  • 15 Saturation diving: diving deeper than 300m
  • IV Diving Shallower Than 50m
  • 16 Mathematical modeling of tissue bubble dynamics during decompression
  • 17 An evaluation of automatic recording of commercial air-diving data
  • 18 Civil engineering working practices and standards
  • 19 The future of diver training
  • 20 Decompression sickness in commercial air divers. The present status of the Shields/Lee report
  • 21 Clinical presentations and significance of decompresssion sickness: an analysis of incidents from commercial diving operations 1977-87
  • V Developments in Underwater Intervention(Including Robotic Systems)
  • 22 Design installation and operation of an ROV- operated subsea production system in 450 msw
  • 23 The role of two new autonomous diving systems in underwater intervention
  • 24 Wellman: the subsea intervention system
  • 25 An overview of current projects in the field of diverless subsea production systems
  • 26 Advanced robotics under water: the DTI initiative
  • 27 New developments in flooded member detection
  • 28 Progress of automation in remote intervention tasks
  • 29 Operational automatic hyperbaric welding
  • VI Diversification and Innovation
  • Adapting to Change
  • 30 Resources from the sea programme
  • a technical challenge
  • 31 The return of the manned submersible
  • a new dawn?
  • 32 Seabed contact vehicles
  • 33 Diversification and innovation: adapting to change
  • or the view of one small business
  • 34 University/Industry/Government Interfaces
  • Joint R & D Projects
  • Do They Work?