deepwater Archives - Westwood

AUV’s – The foot soldier of ‘tomorrow’s field’?

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (“AUVs”) are nothing new. They have been with us, in one guise or another, since the 1950’s. Differing from their more complex family members, the Remotely Operated Vehicle (“ROV”), they glide quicker through the water without the need to be tethered to a host vessel by an umbilical.