Category: Deep Submergence Vehicles
06/04/09
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) successfully sends the hybrid ROV-AUV Nereus1 to the bottom of the Mariana Trench (6.78 miles; 10,911 meters)—samples seabed sediment and sends back some amazing pictures.
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01/23/09
08:16:46 pm by misblog, Categories: Surveillance, News, Environmental, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Wired Magazine covers1 the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's (MBARI) final component installation of an undersea sensor system node known as the Monterey Accelerated Research System or MARS ocean observatory.
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10/28/07
01:54:26 am by halibut, Categories: American Submarines, Missions, Books, This Day In History, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Russian Submarines , Tags: all hands down, books, compass island, edward offley, glomar explorer, halibut, jerome preisler, k-129, kenneth sewell, project jennifer, pueblo, scorpion, scorpion down, seawolf, ssn 575, ssn 587, ssn 589, submarines On this day, October 28, 1968, the USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) towed her magnetometer and cameras over a sunken wreckage two miles below. Two days later the United States Navy declared to the world that the sunken USS Scorpion (SSN 589) had been located.
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