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58 CHAPTER 3 Design Theory and Standards
FIGURE 3.3
US Navy’s hydraulic SNOOPY.
FIGURE 3.4
Hydro Products’ RCV 225 and RCV 150 vehicles.
These new intruders, albeit successful in their design goals, still could not shake that lock on the market by the manned submersibles and saturation divers. In 1974, only 20 vehicles had been constructed, with 17 of those funded by various governments. Some of those included are as follows:
• France—ERIC and Telenaute and ECA with their PAP mine countermeasure vehicles
• Finland—PHOCAS and Norway—the SNURRE
• UK—British Aircraft Corporation (BAC-1) soon to be the CONSUB 01; SUB-2, CUTLET
• Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh—ANGUS (001, 002, and 003)
• Soviet Union—CRAB-4000 and MANTA vehicles
It could be said that ROVs reached adolescence, which is generally tied to a growth spurt, accented by bouts of unexplained or irrational behavior, around 1975. With an exponential upturn,
