primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . june 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message seatrepid international llc type llc founded 2003 headquarters robert louisiana united states website http www.seatrepid.com seatrepid international llc is an underwater engineering and service company located in robert louisiana providing underwater robotic solutions for the oil and gas industry and other underwater industries . contents 1 corporate history 2 services 2.1 offshore 2.2 inland 3 facilities 4 public exposure 4.1 expeditions 4.2 tv 5 references 6 external links corporate history edit in 1999 robert bob christ co founded videoray llc with scott bentley developing and manufacturing micro underwater remotely operated vehicles rovs . bob founded seatrepid in 2003 as an rov consulting service in southeastern pennsylvania . early customers included the us coast guard army and navy . 1 in early 2006 seatrepid began consulting with oil & gas customers in the gulf of mexico primarily to assist with the cleanup and repair work needed after the damage done by hurricanes katrina and rita in late 2005 . in order to meet this demand seatrepid relocated its offices to hammond louisiana in 2006 . in december 2007 seatrepid purchased a 6.25 acre property in robert louisiana to accommodate large increases in personnel and assets . in 2009 seatrepid changed its name to seatrepid international llc . a new building was built on the robert property over doubling the size of seatrepid s facilities . 2 the new facility helped enable seatrepid to support larger rov operations . seatrepid added mid class rovs to its fleet in 2010 3 and work class rovs in 2012 4 and 2013 . 5 services edit offshore edit seatrepid operates observation and mid size submersible rov systems . seatrepid started with small inspection class vehicles providing diver support and platform inspections in the gulf of mexico in early 2006 . the company s rapid growth can be attributed to their willingness to perform tasks with small rovs that have traditionally been done by large rovs or divers . they will commonly install sensors and tooling on their smaller rovs that are usually found only on larger systems . 6 as the company grew seatrepid expanded into larger rov systems . their current rov fleet includes micro rovs observation mid class and light work class rovs . 7 inland edit seatrepid provides search and rescue pipe inspection tank inspection and other inland services using inspection class and micro rovs . 8 seatrepid s land based jobs increased rapidly and in 2009 . facilities edit seatrepid currently resides on a 6.25 acre property in robert louisiana . following the completion of major renovations in june 2009 9 the property contains multiple buildings with a large equipment warehouse equipment design testing repair workshop training facilities as well as administrative offices and housing and parking for offshore employees . they also have a large in ground testing pool which is used to test current and prototype rovs and rented out to other companies for equipment testing and diver training . 10 public exposure edit expeditions edit seatrepid has assisted in expeditions let by robert h. rines to explore loch ness in scotland . tv edit in season 2 episode 2 11 of oil sweat and rigs 12 a discovery channel series a large portion of the underwater footage was provided by seatrepid rovs and from their video archive . the history channel followed seatrepid on its latest expedition to explore loch ness . footage was featured in season 4 of monster quest in the episode death of loch ness . 13 the discovery of golf balls at the bottom of the loch also got attention from news agencies such as cnn . 14 references edit hydrocarbon online videoray co founder bob christ now for hire to get results from videoray rovs in any situation seatrepid history highlights rigzone seatrepid adds sub atlantic mohicans to rov fleet seatrepid news october 1 2012 offshore seatrepid adds to rov fleet oilonline almost disposable rovs earning respect offshore comanche press release seatrepid inland commercial getenergyevent.com seatrepid facilities announcement facility press release imdb oil sweat and rigs s02e02 discovery channel oil sweat and rigs death of loch ness . the history channel website . the lost golf balls of loch ness . cnn.com . october 13 2009 . external links edit seatrepid.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seatrepid & oldid 732616003 categories engineering companies of the united statescompanies based in louisianahidden categories articles lacking reliable references from june 2011all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom 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