Ingersoll-Rand's Compressed Air Magazine

12/01/1998

A remote-controlled submersible robot designed to inspect the bottoms of petroleum and chemical storage tanks recently took a dive into the huge pool at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL), Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. The test, done through a Space Act Agreement facilitated by TechLink, allowed the company to utilize NASA expertise in tether management, developed through many years of training astronauts, to test retrieval devices and procedures for the Maverick inspection robot should its umbilical cord become entangled in a piping column at the bottom of a tank.

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