Exton,
Pennsylvania, May 24, 2001-- VideoRay ROV, the 8-pound swimming video
camera, was a key tool last September during the internal survey of the
sunken USS Arizona WWII battleship in Pearl Harbor, HI. Sized slightly
larger than a shoebox, VideoRay ROV sneaked through portholes, air ducts,
manholes, and openings created by bomb blasts to bring back data and
images from the USS Arizona’s interior. This summer, VideoRay ROVs will
continue explorations of the USS Arizona, USS Utah, and other submerged
structures in Pearl Harbor tended by the National Park Service.
VideoRay Vice
President Bob Christ worked with the National Geographic Society and the
National Park Service to survey the structural integrity of the rapidly
disintegrating interior and locate the source of oil leaking since WWII.
Tiny and maneuverable, VideoRay ROV was identified as the only piece of
equipment that would be small enough not to disturb the archeological
integrity of the wreck and fit into even the most confined places.
See photos of
VideoRay inside the USS Arizona on the National Geographic web site at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature5/zoom2.html
and http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0106/feature5/zoom4.html
See
additional photos from the expedition at http://scott.bentley.com/Hawaii0900
(c) 2000 by VideoRay LLC; and http://scott.bentley.com/NPSPhotos
© USS Arizona Memorial NPS Photo by Brett Seymour, Submerged
Resources Center, National Park Service, September 2000 (c) 2001 by
National Park Service and VideoRay LLC. On the Web, see http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
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