Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc.
Deep Ocean Engineering has built ROVs and USVs in San Jose, California since 1982, delivering over 600 systems to 30+ countries.
Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc. is a US underwater-robotics manufacturer founded in 1982 and based in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley. It should not be confused with DeepOcean Group, a Norwegian offshore-services company reachable at deepoceangroup.com; the two are unrelated entities headquartered in different countries with no shared ownership. Deep Ocean Engineering has received the Marine Technology Society's Compass Award for its contributions to oceanography and marine technology, and the company states that some of its first-generation vehicles, built more than 20 years ago, remain in service in the field today, a point it uses to illustrate the durability of its engineering.
The company's core product family is the Phantom line of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), spanning models such as the Phantom S5, a 1,000 m-rated ROV measuring 1,270 x 800 x 763 mm with four vectored horizontal thrusters plus one vertical thruster (2.5 hp each) delivering 175 kgf of forward thrust and 100 kgf of reverse thrust, and the Phantom T5, a rapid-deployment intervention ROV rated to 300 m depth with a corrosion-resistant, non-conductive polypropylene chassis and four vectored horizontal plus one vertical Tecnadyne thruster. Additional Phantom ROV variants in the catalog include the X-Series, L-Series, FireFly and the compact P-150. On the surface-vehicle side, the company builds the Phantom H-1750 unmanned surface vehicle (USV), a 1,750 mm remote-controlled mini-catamaran survey platform with a 60 kg payload capacity, a top speed of 5 m/s and a 2 m/s survey speed, roughly 1 to 4 hours of battery endurance depending on speed, a 2 km operating range, and an onboard forward-looking HD video camera; it can be fitted with side-scan sonar, LIDAR, an acoustic Doppler current profiler, sub-bottom profilers or multibeam echosounders, and a related I-1650 USV model is also offered for smaller survey missions.
Deep Ocean Engineering states it has supplied more than 600 ROV and USV systems to customers in over 30 countries, serving nuclear power plant inspection, law enforcement and homeland security, scientific research, offshore oil and gas, municipal infrastructure, hydrographic surveying, and underwater cinematography markets. The company sells directly from its San Jose facility and through its sales and customer-support lines, has not disclosed any external venture funding, and operates as an independent, privately held manufacturer rather than as part of a larger corporate group.
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Contact Deep Ocean Engineering, Inc.
WEBSITE
https://www.deepocean.comPHONE
+1-408-436-1102HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
1982
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Manufacturer
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North America
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