Chris Roper is Saab Seaeye Ltd.’s North American Sales Manager. Prior to joining Saab, Chris managed his own company, Roper Resources Ltd. Since 1980 Chris has been involved in technical sales, onsite installation and at sea training across a wide selection of ROVs, AUVs, tools and sensors systems. Trained as a commercial saturation diver and later as a professional ROV pilot, Chris has been involved in numerous deep-water ROV & AUV operations. He has been an invited speaker at conferences and has published a number of papers on ocean robotic.