Tank Camera Handling

FISH PEN and TANK INSPECTION SYSTEM Do you have a test tank with equipment in it that you would like to check or inspect, but don't want to mobilise an ROV system or don't have one available ? Then the following tank inspection system may be what you need. Developed and proven for handling pan and tilt camera units in salmon farm fish pens, the two-winch system is ideal for simple tank inspection work. A pan and tilt camera on its own can only be moved manually, however, using two winches they can be moved over the full width and depth of a pen or tank. The pan and tilt camera is suspended on lines from the two winches. Operating the winches together or separately greatly increases the tank viewing options. The problem that fish farms had was that they could only set their pan and tilt cameras a fixed depth and location within their fish pens. Operators need to watch the fish feeding so that they can control the feed supply rate and in some cases the feed specification. At the start of a feeding session, the fish are frantic at the surface, but as the session progresses, the fish move down and progressively more and more of them stop feeding. The operator wants to control the feed supply rate by watching, not so much the fish, but the feed pellets to see how much is falling past the fish. Feed is expensive and the pellets are quite small, they also come in different "sink" rates. With the winch system, the operator can follow the fish down or across the tank when a current is running. The objective is to keep feeding for as long as possible, whilst wasting as little feed as possible.

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