Abstract

For more than a decade, the SERPENT Project has been underway. Over 120 visits to oil rigs, drill ships, and survey vessels run by sixteen oil companies have been made by scientists from universities and research institutions during this time to collaborate with the industry's Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV). Visitors have traveled to water depths of 100 meters to almost 3000 meters in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australasia. More than 40 peer-reviewed publications have been directly produced by the project, and numerous other publications have made use of data from its online image and video archive, which has over 2600 entries.