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Table 2. Major Characteristics of Unmanned 

 Undersea Vehicles World-wide 



Vehicle 



Operator 



Length Lifting 



Depth Beam Weight Payload 

 (ft) (In) (lbs) (lbs) 



TANADA 



BATFISH Bedford Inst 650.. 52,29 



TROT Canada Center 1200.. 66,36 



Inland Waters 



EBMCE 



PAP Sociece ECA 600. .106,- 



TELENANTE I Institute Francais 1000.. 162, 60 



Petrol 



TELENANTE II. .. Institute Francais 1000.-162,60 



Petrol 



ERIC French Navy 3300.. 180, 72 



TROIKA DCAN 7220. . 170,82 



MM. 



OCEAN SEACE ROBOT. Mitsubishi Ind 800. .180,31 



GFRNANY (FRG) 



.19700.. 



.150,72 



IBAK IBAK 



MANKA c ...GKSS 



(Test Model) 



NORWAY 



CABLE CONIRCJiED. Royal Norwegian.. 1800. 

 VEHICLE Navy 



SOVIET UNION 



MANTA (2 Units). Acad. of Science. 



GLDROPLAN c Acad, of Science. 



KAYMAN 



SKMIPENA Research Inst... 



Fish. 6c Oceanog. 



KRAB-1 Acad, of Science. . 10000. . 100,80 



KRAB-2 Acad, of Science. . 10000. . 



llNITFn KINGDOM 



TROV-Ol Underground Locaticn 1200.. 84,50 



Services 



CONSUB Inst. of Geology... 2000.. 96,65 



SEXTON MATSU 



CUTLET Ministry of Defence. 



UNI T ED ST ATES 



BUOYANCY USN Civil Eng.Lab. 



TRANSORT VEH. 



SOLARIS Naval Torpedo Sta. 



ELEC. SNOOPY Naval Unifersea Ctr. 



ELECTRIC Naval Facilities.. 



SNOOPY II Engr. Center 



CORD Harbor Br. Found. .. 



UARS Univ. of Washington 



RECON II Perry Oceanog 



SCAT Naval Undersea Ctr. 



DEEP DRONE Ametek Straza 



RUFAS II Miss. State Univ. .. 



CURV II Naval Undersea Ctr. 



CURV IIB Naval Torpedo Sta. 



J-STAR Jacobsen Bros 



SCARAB (2) A.T.&T. Co 



DCMS Ametek Straza 



SORD I Naval Torpedo Sta. 



SORD II Naval Torpedo Sta. 



RC-125 HYDRO Products 



CURV III Naval Undersea Ctr. 



c = Construction 



1500. 

 1500. 

 1500. 



39,24 

 45,28 



154. 

 1,130. 



1,760.. 

 2,200.. 



2,200.. 



4,410. .16,000 

 2,000.. 



3,530.. 



1,000. 



2,000. 

 1,760. 



290 



850.. 96,72 . 1,800.. 1,000 



150.. 

 300.. 





 



50 

 



80 





 400 

 400 



2,000 



Vehicle 



Operator 



Length Lifting 



Depth Beam Weight Payload 

 (ft) (in) (lbs) (lbs) 



RUM/ORB Scripps Inst 8000. . 150, 108. 24,000.. 



of Oceanog. 



NEDAR I Assoc. Marine Ser.. 10000. 



SEA PROBE Ocean Search Inc.. 10000. 



SPURV Univ. of Wash 12000. 



TELEPROBE Naval Oceanog Off. 20000. 



DEEP TCM Scripps Inst 20000. 



of Oceanog. 



SEA DRONE I Pre Con, Inc 20000. 



MIZAR FISH Naval Research Lab. 20000. 



ROWS Naval Unitersea Ctr. 20000. 



NEDAR II Assoc. Marine Ser.. 25000. 



WOIK VEHICLE c . . HYDROTECH 4000. 



VERTICAL c HYDROTECH 4000. 



TRANa^RT VEH. 



UDOSS c Jet Prop. Lab 20000. 



ROBOT VEHICLE. .M. I.T 



Table 3. Summary Statistics on Undersea 

 Vehicles 



Status 



Manned Unmanned 



Table 4. Utilization of the ALVIN 

 Submersible 



Year Totals 

 74 75 



Total Number of Dives 60 



Total Dives, Test & Training 7 



Total Mission Dives 53 



Mission Categories: 



Or ientat ion 



Biology. . 13 



Geology 32 



Search & Recovery 2 



Equipment Inspection 6 



Navigation Experiments 



Other Science & Engineering 



Total Time Submerged (hrs) 



Average Time for Dive (hrs) 



58 



4 



54 





 37 

 9 

 3 

 

 

 5 



Cumulative 

 Totals to 

 1 Jan. 76 



604 

 136 

 468 



60 

 122 



142 

 45 

 28 

 24 

 47 



,236 

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