1. Acrylic Cabin
The Triumph cabin provides a one atmosphere environment for 3 occupants and consists of two identical acrylic hemispheres mounted on to their respective upper and lower aluminum rings. The cabin rings are hinged at the front of the vessel and the upper hemisphere tilts open like a clam-shell for easy embarking and disembarking. 

2. Cabin Latch System
The Triumph cabin has two latch systems that in conjunction with the front hinge close the upper and lower rings together. The cabin seal is achieved by compressing the hard and soft seals located in the upper ring between the two rings. The cabin latches can be opened or closed from either the inside or outside of the cabin.

3. Single Hoist Point
The 1500 ft rated Triumph has the option for a single hook-up hoist point located above the center of gravity for lifting the vessel, or a four-point lift system. The 3000ft model only has a four-point lift system.

4. Lateral Thrusters
There are two Lateral thrusters that work in a push-pull fashion to allow the pilot to crab the craft sideways either left or right.

5. Oxygen Tanks
The Triumph is equipped with external oxygen tanks used for the cabin’s life support system. There are two 120 cuft tank located on the starboard side which are the main oxygen tanks used for normal operation. The two 120 cuft oxygen tanks on the port side hold the reserve oxygen. The internal O2 delivery system is redundant.

6. Air Tanks
The Triumph is equipped with two 350 SCF air tanks (@2900 psi), one on each side of the vessel which are used for re-inflating the flotation bladders (port, star, & rear) that lift the vessel back to surface mode. Furthermore, the air tanks are used for the BCD (Buoyancy Control Device) that allows the pilot to adjust the vessel’s buoyancy while underwater. These air tanks are independent of each other and offer full redundancy.

7. Port & Starboard Flotation Bladder
In combination with the rear bladders (see Item 15) the Port and Starboard flotation bladders allow the vessel to float high above the water line and provide a freeboard of greater than 30 inches. Each bladder is a double layer design with the inner bladder available to be inflated as a reserve in case of failure by the outer bladder.

8. Permanent Lead Weight
Permanent lead blocks are mounted at the bottom of the Port and Starboard bladder cylinders and are part of the total weight and balance of the vessel.

9. Battery Pods
The Triumph holds three identical Battery Pods that provide the electrical power for the vessel. Each Battery Pod holds eleven batteries of which nine form a 108VDC power bank, used for propulsion and external lighting, and two form a 24VDC bank used for the instrumentation of the vessel. All three battery pods are connected in parallel in the Electronic Pod.

10. Handrail & Light Mounting Cage
The Triumph cabin is surrounded by an aluminum cage that acts as a hand rail for occupants to board the craft and also as a mounting structure for the underwater lights and their pan & tilt assemblies.

11. Underwater Lights
The Triumph is equipped with underwater lights mounted either on a pan & tilt system or on the light mounting cage directly. Each underwater light is individually controlled ON/OFF by the pilot at the pilot control station.

12. Underwater Pan & Tilt System
The Triumph is equipped with two pan and tilt systems that are individually controlled by the pilot.

13. Upper Aft Thrusters
The Triumph is equipped with four aft thrusters of which two are located above the tail section and two are located below. The two upper aft thrusters (Port and Starboard) can be ENABLED or DISABLED separately from the other propulsion thrusters at the Pilot Control station. When ENABLED the upper Starboard and Port Thrusters function in tandem with their lower counterparts. This allows the pilot to activate either the upper row, lower row, or both in tandem.

14. Lower Aft Thrusters
The Triumph is equipped with four aft thrusters of which two are located above the tail section and two are located below. The two Lower aft thrusters (Port and Starboard) can be ENABLED or DISABLED from the other propulsion thrusters at the Pilot Control station. When ENABLED the lower Starboard and Port Thrusters function in tandem with their upper counterparts. This allows the pilot to activate either the upper row, lower row, or both rows in tandem.

15. Rear Flotation Bladders
In combination with the Front bladders (See Item 7) the Rear flotation bladders allow the vessel to float high above the water line and provide a freeboard greater than 30 inches. The two rear bladders are inflated and deflated together with the same control valve. Each rear bladder has a backup Reserve Rear bladder mounted in its cylinder in case of failure of the primary set.

16. DVL Doppler Navigator
The Triumph is equipped with a DVL Doppler Navigator which provides the pilot a dead-reckoning navigation system. The DVL Doppler locks its sonar signals on the seafloor and in combination with its flux-gate compass provides the pilot a compass heading and speed, and tracks the submersible’s current position from the initial start point. Furthermore, the DVL Doppler provides the distance of the submersible from the seafloor and its pressure transducer measures the vessel’s depth. The DVL Doppler data is presented on the cabin’s onboard computer monitor.

17. Forward Looking Sonar
The Triumph is equipped with a forward-looking sonar mounted at the front of the vessel and used for obstacle avoidance. The forward looking sonar data is presented on the cabin’s onboard computer monitor.

18. Observer Seats
The two forward seats in the cabin are for the two observers or co-pilots. The seating arrangement is such as to provide the best comfort and visibility through the acrylic view ports in addition to the front panel and all equipment monitoring displays in the cabin.

19. Pilot Control Console
The center pilot control console is located in between the two copilots and in front of the pilot seat. The pilot control console holds the propulsion maneuvering joystick, provides the pilot access to all cabin breakers and instrumentation control switches, and presents a number of status lights.

20. Pilot Seat
The pilot seat is located in between the two co-pilot seats and the control console. The seating provides the pilot excellent field of view through the acrylic and access to all instrumentation.

21. Lead Weight Access Hatch
The Triumph’s payload is normalized prior to each dive to 750lbs. All occupants are weighed prior to a dive and the difference in weight is compensated with lead blocks dropped in the lead weight compartments through these access hatches.       

22. Vertical Thrusters
The Triumph is equipped with two vertical thrusters that operate in tandem at all times to push the vessel underwater either up or down.

23. Drop Weight System
The Triumph is equipped with a drop weight system that releases 240lbs of lead balls when activated to compensate for an emergency condition. The hydraulic drop weight system releases twelve 10lbs balls on each side of the craft simultaneously when activated by the pilot.

24. Lead Weight Compartments
Underneath the Lead Weight Access Hatches are the compartments that hold the lead blocks that are used to normalize the vessel’s payload prior to each dive.

25. Buoy Release System
The Triumph is equipped with an emergency buoy release mechanism that the pilot can activate from inside the cabin. The buoy is attached to the submersible via a 2000 feet long spectra line (4000 ft spectra line for the 3000ft deep model) such that when released can indicate to surface the exact location of the submersible. The release mechanism can also be activated by the top side crew via an acoustic surface module.         

26. Electronic Pod
The Electronic Pod contains all the high power electronics of the submersible and also acts as the main input/output port for the external devices controlled from inside the cabin. Therefore, the battery pod power banks and the Cabin control signals are routed to the Electronic Pod from which the thrusters and external devices are activated.

27. Thruster Pressure Oil Compensation Bladders
All of Triumph’s propulsion thrusters are pressure oil compensated. The pressure compensation is achieved by four oil bladders with each bladder dedicated to two thrusters.

28. Syntactic Foam
The tail section of the Triumph consists of syntactic foam that provides the buoyancy to keep the vessel in a horizontal attitude underwater. The fiberglass tail section of the shell is filled with syntactic foam and this self standing block provides additional buoyancy.