The self propelled habitat is designed around an in-house concept, which makes the vehicle the ideal platform for all diving operations inside cooling water intake pipelines, culverts, outfalls and sewer pipes.

The system moves itself trough culverts and is operated either from the surface or by the divers. This concept allows divers to work safely over long distances in confined spaces

The vehicle it self moves on eight wheels. Four running wheels mounted on the bottom side and four on top driven by four HP water/hydraulic motors. Operations are controlled and monitored from inside the habitat control room using state of the art techniques for life support, air/gas analysing, video and communication. The hydraulic drive of the wheels is powered by onboard HP water/hydraulic motors. This enclosed water/hydraulic drive system is supplied by an environmentally friendly HP fresh water pump system and is fully redundant.

The habitat is connected via the main umbilical to the habitat control room and live support systems. Divers are connected to the habitat via a short 20m1 excursion length umbilical. Inspection and maintenance can be carried out minimising the diver excursion distance.

The ROCM (Remotely Operated Cleaning Machine) is designed around an in-house concept, which makes the vehicle the ideal platform for cleaning and removal of sea debris and sediment from inside cooling water intake pipelines, culverts, outfalls and sewer pipes. The system removes the debris from the culvert by using hydraulically operated brushes. The debris is pumped as slurry through a flexible hose to a discharge location. The vehicle itself is mounted on tracks. The vehicle is controlled from the surface using state of the art hard and software techniques. In the present configuration the ROCM is capable of cleaning culverts up to a maximum width and height of 2,400 mm and a length of approx. 450 m1.