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Pitot tube, 320
Pixel, 265
Planning and research, 580583 Polycrystalline, 392
Polyisocyanurate foams, 109
Pontoon Implacement Vehicle (PIV), 57 Port and harbor acoustic environment, 446 Port security, 591
Positioning, 426, 434441
frame of reference, 434
long baseline (LBL) system, 437441
short baseline (SBL) system, 435436
system types, 441443
theory of, 426
ultrashort baseline (USBL) principles, 436437
Positive displacement flow sensors, 320 Positively buoyant cable, 204, 207f Postdive procedures, 623624
Potable water tank inspections, 623 Power source, 127, 153156
electrical power, 153155 electrohydraulic power, 155156 placement of, 643
Power systems, 142144 arrangements, 144145
Predive operations, 606609 checklist, 608609
crew briefing, 606607 vehicle preparation, 607608
Pressure, 28, 370
compensator, 555, 555f
-balanced, oil-filled (PBOF) connector, 169, 170f -sensitive depth gauge, 288
Production Quality Assurance (QA), 192
Profiling sonar, 404406
Programmable Underwater Connector with Knowledge
(PUCK), 188 Progressive video, 266267
Project management versus day rate, 1215 Propagation constant, 341
Propeller design, 133
Propeller efficiency and placement, 134 Propulsion systems, 123124
Protocol converters, 368 Protocols, 363368
Ethernet, 366367
protocol converters, 368 RS-422/485 protocol, 366 RS-232 standard, 365366, 365f TIA/EIA standards, 364365 universal serial bus, 367
Proton Precision Magnetometer (PPM), 491493
Proximity probe, 498
Public safety diving (PSD), 18, 577589
Pulse length, 392f, 393f
Pulse width, 395
Pulse width modulation (PWM) control, 160161 Push corer, 544f
Q
Quality Control (QC), 192 Quartz sensors, 322
R
Radio, 355
Radio frequency, 63, 191
Radiographic flooded member detection, 494
Rail cameras, 63
Rate gyro, 288
Reachable workspace, 521
Reacquire, Identify, Neutralize (RIN) phase, 565
Red, green, and blue (RGB) components, 260262, 267268,
272f
Reflectivity, 395, 398399
Refraction, 44
Relative referencing of position, 450451
Reliability and quality control, 192
Remote control (RC) operation, 62
Remotely operated tooling (ROT), 530531, 548557 Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), meaning of, 35
Repair and maintenance functions, ROVs in, 19
Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA),
661
Resistance measurement circuits, 306307 Retaining devices, 178
Retention, 185
Reverberation level (RL), 396
Reynolds number, 80
Rhodamine, 40
Rigid polyurethane foam, 109
RigMaster WCROV grabber, 517f
Ring laser gyros (RLG), 458460, 462t Riser Crawling vehicle, 649f
Robotics, basic, 506
Robots, workspace for, 536t
Rotary cutters, 539
Rotary joints, 145148
electrical slip ring, 145146
fiber-optic rotary joints, 146148 Rotary torque tool receptacle, 541f ROV spread, 7172
ROV-mounted scanning sonar, 418 RS-422/485 protocol, 366, 367t
