Trencher upgrade for increased cable burial speeds

A Seatools customer acquired a pre-owned jet trenching ROV. However, the jet trencher performed poorly, resulting in economically unattractive cable burial speeds. Furthermore, the client wished to change the machine from a free-flying vehicle into a tracked vehicle.

Seatools was contracted to review the jet’s design, and propose and implement changes to the existing design in order to increase the trencher’s cable laying speed and its propulsion mechanism.

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