The pandemic interrupted many things, including the trade shows. The long-running international event Underwater Intervention (UI) went on hiatus after the last UI in February 2020. UI had been a mainstay of the commercial diving and ROV/AUV community as well as the home for the Marine Technology Society’s Submarine Group (formerly Manned Underwater Vehicles). Fortunately, the MTS Submarine Group found a new partner with the International Workboat Show which typically exhibited later in the year at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, the same location as UI.
This first post-pandemic meeting of the MTS Submarine Symposium was a resounding success. Members from Europe and North America provided industry updates, previewed new technologies, and gave research and development updates. Anthony Tarantino of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute presented on the full-depth dive of the refitted DSV Alvin, upgraded from 2500m to 6500m depth. Carme Parareda gave an update of the ICTINEU Submarine’s research. Curt Cunningham of the US Navy provided an update on the Submarine Rescue System modernization program, which KES had visited earlier this year. Guy Richards and Andy Turner of Blanson Ltd. from the United Kingdom presented on novel subsurface hulls in development that will require some form of design by analysis, not fitting the ASME PVHO code. Other presentations came from Southwest Research Institute, SEAmagine Hydrospace Corp, American Bureau of Shipping, the Hydrospace Group, Southwest Electronics Energy, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and the Thorsborg Institute. Several of the participants are also KES clients.
Bart Kemper presented the paper “Advancing Towards Design By Analysis for Glassy Polymers” on behalf of Kemper Engineering Services. The presentation outlined the beginning of the development to expand the use of acrylics and glassy polymers beyond the empirically derived ASME PVHO-1 method all the way through the formation of the ASME PVHO task group and their developing multiple papers the previous year, plus development targets going forward. The paper was a team effort by Bart Kemper, Krista Kemper, Quinton Moore, and Alexis San Miguel. More papers will be developed by various task group members in the next few years, with a rough target of having a full draft of a standard ready for committee review within 3 years. This will be a novel design code directly incorporating Verification & Validation techniques as well as stochastic Finite Element Analysis studies, as outlined in the 2020 journal paper. This is also part of KES’ participation in the US National Academies’ Ocean Decade.
In other news, Underwater Intervention is planning to return and be co-located with the International Workboat Show in 2023 in the November/December time frame. This event is likely to take up the entirety of the floor at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. It will bring in some of the biggest names in the marine and subsea communities, from shipbuilders to ROV manufacturers to service providers. The Marine Technology Society will also be supporting it through the MTS Submarine Symposium and the ROV/AUV community.
The MTS Submarine Symposium at the 2022 International Workboat Show, New Orleans, Louisiana where KES presented “Advancing Towards Design-By-Analysis for Glassy Polymers.”
Anthony Tarantino of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the DSV Alvin; Guy Richards of Blanson Ltd. (UK) on novel acrylic submersible hulls; and Bart Kemper of KES giving an update on the progress towards a “Design By Analysis for Glassy Polymers” engineering code.
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