Subsea World news: ECA Group ROV to Service Beachcomer’s Hotels SWAC Systems
ECA Group delivered a 1000-meter depth rated H800 ROV system for the maintenance of the underwater structures belonging to the Beachcomber SC company in French Polynesia.
Published on Subsea World News, July 2017.
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The Beachcomber group owner two hotels in Bora-Bora atoll and in Tetiora atoll, which are equipped with a sea water air conditioning (SWAC) system, using seawater pumped at 860m depth at 3°C temperature as a cooling source.
Such underwater system requires on-going maintenance and for this task they selected ECA Group H800-INS ROV to be used for the maintenance of SWAC systems.
The ROV will be further used as a maintenance tool for other underwater structures works to be completed in Polynesia, such as a domestic internet cable network and the SWAC system of the public hospital.
This ROV system was delivered in the 1st semester of 2017, further to training and sea trials which were conducted in the Mediterranean sea.