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Remotely Operated Vehicle Use Within Shipyards

Dituri J. Journal of Ship Production. 2003;19(4):205-206. doi:10.5957/jsp.2003.19.4.205

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The earliest entry here, and the origin of the thread. Send a machine to do underwater inspection in a shipyard instead of sending a diver. Every question that follows, how much risk a human body should absorb and when a machine should absorb it instead, starts about here.

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