SMD Ultra Trencher 1 starts its new job: laying pipes and cables in the briny deep
...SMD Ultra Trencher 1 (UT1), a 50 ton, 10m ($19.8m) ROV the size of a small domicile (25.5 x 25.5 x 18.3 feet). Capable of sucking up two megawatts of power while using its "jet swords" trench deep sea pipelines up to a meter wide and 2.5 meters deep into the sea floor (while operating at a depth of up to 1500m), the UT1 is clearly just in...
