Techno treasure hunt [Technology Remotely Operated Vehicles]

ZEUS, an eight-tonne remotely operated vehicle (ROV) highly customised for deep-sea shipwreck exploration. ZEUS is controlled from the ship via an umbilical cable-containing multiple fibre-optic cables that carries control instructions to the ROV´s lights, the crucial manipulator arms, the imagery from the HD cameras and the pilot´s eye subsurface. ZEUS´s two arms are seven-function manipulators capable oflifting the weight of an average man. Powerful HMI lights illuminate the pitch-black wreck site for the array of on-board cameras transmitting real-time images from the seabed. The ROV is made neutrally buoyant by stacking its hull with tiny glass globes embedded in non-compressible resin. This also allows the vehicle to withstand the extreme depth pressure.