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SMD Ultra Trencher 1 starts its new job: laying pipes and cables in the briny deep
2008-03-22 05:52:00 by Ryan Block in Engadget
 

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What's supposedly the largest deep-sea remote-controlled robot ever built was rolled out this week: the 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 time. We hear the CIA errant anchors are due to snip another three or four deep-sea internet backbone cables, so the UT1's got its work cut out for it.

 

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Tags: smd ultra trencher, cia errant anchors, ut1, jet swords, meter wide, sea floor, meters deep, time, ton
 
 
 
 
 


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