Start Date
4-1971 8:00 AM
Description
For years now the number of underwater structures has been increasing almost as a geometric progression. The complexity of design and construction has increased at an equally impressive rate. Today we are no longer just concerning ourselves with simple towers, pipelines, outfalls, etc., but rather with complex systems such as the Dubai storage tank, sophisticated deep water drilling and production platforms, subsea wellhead completions, undersea collection and separator systems and complex pipeline systems. The engineering design and construction of such structures is rapidly evolving from "brute force", "cut and try" to the science of ocean engineering. Inspection and preventive maintenance of our underwater construction however, have remained in the dark ages. For the most part our inspection programs have been little more than attempts to find and solve problems after the fact and our preventive maintenance programs have been more often than not exemplified by the philosophy of "once it's under water, forget it". Neither of these programs can continue in their present mode.
Underwater Engineering Photographic Documentation
For years now the number of underwater structures has been increasing almost as a geometric progression. The complexity of design and construction has increased at an equally impressive rate. Today we are no longer just concerning ourselves with simple towers, pipelines, outfalls, etc., but rather with complex systems such as the Dubai storage tank, sophisticated deep water drilling and production platforms, subsea wellhead completions, undersea collection and separator systems and complex pipeline systems. The engineering design and construction of such structures is rapidly evolving from "brute force", "cut and try" to the science of ocean engineering. Inspection and preventive maintenance of our underwater construction however, have remained in the dark ages. For the most part our inspection programs have been little more than attempts to find and solve problems after the fact and our preventive maintenance programs have been more often than not exemplified by the philosophy of "once it's under water, forget it". Neither of these programs can continue in their present mode.
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