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| S.NO | Major Projects | Performances |
| 1 | Development and test of Underwater Mining System for long time operation using dynamic positioning system | Installed Launching and Retrieval System (LARS) in ORV Sagar Kanya qualified for Crawler Launching Demonstration trails at 450m water depth off the coast of Goa in Arabian sea was completed in the year 2006. Extensive tests were done for Maneuvering and Soil Pumping. The tests were successfully completed by the first week of March 2006.
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| 2 | Development of Underwater collector and crushing system for manganese nodule mining and testing in shallow water | New enhanced crawler is designed and being fabricated for the collector and crushing system. Collector, pickup and crushing systems where developed indigenously and tested. Electrical and Electronic systems has been suitably modified/ augmented to support the new systems.
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| 3 | Development of Remotely Operable In-situ soil tester (6000m) | A Remotely Operable In-situ soil tester suitable for operation at 6000m water depth was jointly developed with M/s Sevmorgeo, Russia. The system was successfully tested at a depth of 5200m in Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) during Nov 2006.
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| 4 | Development of Remotely Operable Artificial Nodule laying system | A system was built to create an artificial nodule bed on the sea floor in order to test/demonstrate the working of underwater mining machine at shallow waters. The system was successfully tested at 500m depth by laying artificial nodules on the ocean floor, off the coast of Chennai in Bay of Bengal during the period June 2007.
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| 5 | Remotely operable Boat (ROB) | ROB is an unmanned swath type boat powered through batteries and controlled through wireless systems. ROB was planned to make unmanned survey operation in the shallow waters. The working of the ROB was successfully demonstrated in Muttukadu Lake (backwaters) near Chennai.
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