Patent ID: 8297214

Claim:
A Remotely Operated Submersible Vehicle comprises, an external body comprising a charge port, a center shaft, a control tether port, shell bodies, thrusters, a viewing window, a tether support, and window sealing o-rings; an internal body comprising of an internal frame, a pitch servo motor, a pitch shaft train, a camera servo motor, a camera train, a camera arm, a camera shaft mount, a flood light, a video camera, a camera arm mount, a control circuit, battery packs, and weight sets; the remotely operated submersible vehicle having a center of buoyancy; the external body having a first center of gravity positioned at a same location as the center of buoyancy; the internal body having a second center of gravity fixed and vertically downward in relation to the center of buoyancy regardless of pitch orientation of the external body; and the remotely operated submersible vehicle having a center of gravity determined by the first center of gravity and the second center of gravity on basis of weights of the external body and the internal body.