OFFSHORE DATA COLLECTION AND INSTRUMENTATION.

A description is presented of experience with several data systems to monitor, display, and record power generation, power consumption, barge motion, and other mechanical parameters. System goals were to obtain data to evaluate on-board systems, determine the most adverse conditions under which pipe can be laid, detect critical conditions during normal and emergency situations, determine data to better support pipe laying operations, positioning and maneuvering and provide environmental and system data for real time operations.