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Shianne Simmers History tells us that humans have been working underwater for several centuries. ROVs have been used since the 1960s and ever since then we have found more ways for their use. According to http://www.rov.org/rov_history.cfm. The US Navy funded most of the early ROV technology development in the 1960s into what was then named a "Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle". R.O.V. Remotely Operated Vehicle is the name used to refer to the wire-guided robot submarines used in the maritime industry. They are highly maneuverable, are driven by skilled operators on board vessels or platforms. On one side of the debate people will argue that ROVs are not valuable for underwater research. However ROVs are ABSOLUTELY valuable to underwater research because of their accessibility, ability to find treasures, and helping history coming back to life. The first reason that ROVs are important to underwater research is there accessibility ROVs can be tiny so they can go into …show more content…

In 2010, a research vessel named the Connecticut, was used to investigate shipwrecks. The information gathered from these archaeological sites were used to list each four sites on the National Register of Historic Places. stellwagen.noaa.gov The well known ship, Titanic, was surveyed using ROVs at the wreckage. They were able to conduct scientific analysis of the ship's deterioration and take the first underwater photographs of the ship.ocean.si.edu/ocean-videos. If ROVs were not available, than Dr.Ballard wouldn't have been able to locate a boiler in the Titanic on September 1, 1985. The Programmed Underwater Vehicle was a torpedo developed by Luppis-Whitehead Automobile in Austria in 1864. However, the first tethered ROV named POODLE, was developed by Dimitri Rebikoff in 1953. ROVs are able to find these items and analyze the underwater

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