Patent ID: 8783784

Claim:
A material and equipment recovery system comprising: a recovery vehicle comprising; a chassis having a forward end and a rear end; a drive train mounted on said chassis; a retrieval hitch proximal to said rear end; an operable recovery implement attached to said forward end; a recovery vehicle controller issuing control signals for said drive train and said operable recovery implement; a video camera and a light mounted to said chassis proximal to said forward end and directed in the forward direction, a video camera and a light mounted to said chassis proximal to said rear end and directed in the rear direction, and a camera directed at a set of displays of status gauges mounted to said chassis; a first Ethernet extender issuing said control signals to said recovery vehicle controller and receiving video signals from said video cameras; a data cable in electrical continuity with said First Ethernet extender and conveying said control signals to said first Ethernet extender and receiving said video signals from said first Ethernet extender; and a surface control station comprising; a wheeled chassis; a second Ethernet extender in electrical continuity with said data cable and issuing said control signals to said data cable and receiving said video signals from said data cable; an operator station on said wheeled chassis, said operator's station comprising, a video display screen, said video display screen receiving said video signals from said second Ethernet extender and displaying video images derived from said video signals, a surface station controller, said surface station controller conveying said control signals to said second Ethernet extender, an operator interface, said operator interface receiving input from an operator, said operator interface generating said control signals from said input and conveying said control signals to said surface station controller, and a winch with a retrieval cable, said winch mounted on said wheeled chassis, said retrieval cable being attached to said retrieval hitch on said recovery vehicle.