Abstract
The ROV LUSO, a 6000m rated work class ROV which supports a large range of multidisciplinary research activities on the deep ocean become operational in 2007, by the Portuguese Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf. Here, we report on the LUSO project background, its characteristics and perform a three year appraisal, LUSO seagoing operations, operational performance and team building efforts. So far, ROV LUSO operated in three scientific campaigns (2008-2010), targeting the Azores Platform, southern Azores seamounts, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and the Selvagens Islands at Madeira Archipelago. Overall, 80 LUSO dives were accomplished, corresponding to a total of 320 hours of submarine operations. Since early 2011 EMEPC has a new facility for the ROV and other marine equipment maintenance, repair and development. This infrastructure is also used as an in-house training center and the logistics base of all the maritime operations. It will enable the implementation of LUSO development plans (2012-2015) which comprise, developing task specific skids (e.g. geological and fluid sampling), fitting an electromagnetic survey system, a vibracorer system, a 3D camera and integrating Video annotation system in LUSO video record infrastructure.
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