Subsea Technology and the Role of the Learned Society

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Subsea Technology and the Role of the Learned
Society

• Ian Gallett
• Executive Secretary
• Society for Underwater Technology

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Environmental Forces

• Physics of waves
• The effect of waves on structures
• Design of structures wave loading

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Subsea Engineering Operations (SEO)

• Subsea Facilities and Equipment

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SEO - Floating Production, Storage and Offloading

• Foinaven - West of Shetland Islands

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SEO - Subsea Tree

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SEO - Subsea Layouts
Thunder Horse
Mad Dog 2400m

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SEO - Depth
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Marine Renewable Energy

• Wind

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Marine Renewable Energy

• Wind
• Wave

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Marine Renewable Energy

• Wind
• Wave
• Tidal

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Ocean Resources

• Aggregates
• Biotechnology
• Fishing
• Fish farming
• Aquaculture
• Mariculture
• Minerals

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Offshore Site Investigation Geotechnics (OSIG)

• Survey
• Swath Bathymetry
• Sidescan Sonar
• Soil Mechanics
• Geo-hazards

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Underwater Science

• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Fish science
• Acoustics
• Physical Oceanography
• Archaeology

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Enabling Technology - Diving

• Divers at work
• Offshore Engineering
• Inshore Engineering
• Police
• Military
• U/W Science
• Archaeology
• Recreation

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Underwater Robotics

• Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

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Learned Society

• The Society for Underwater Technology is an
  international body actively promoting the
  development, dissemination and exchange of ideas,
  information, and technology arising from or
  related to the underwater environment

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Membership

• Individual members over 1800
• Corporate members over 140

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Branches

• Aberdeen Houston
• Rio de Janeiro Kuala Lumpur
• Australasia (Perth Melbourne)
• West Africa Bergen Cairo

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Society for Underwater Technology

• What the Learned Society contributes
• Dissemination of knowledge
• meetings, conferences, courses, seminars
• Journals
• Overview, leading to
• diversification
• crossing disciplinary boundaries
• Non-partisan Focal Point

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Education Training

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Education Training Committee
• Educational Support Fund

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Society forUnderwater Technology

• www.sut.org