Yet another demonstration of the wide variety of applications for underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles. This article describes a Seabotix ROV exploring a flooded gold mine shaft in California: Minign Journal 21feb18
Woods Hole spots dumbo octopus eggs with ROV
Incredible what life can be found at >2400 m! Adorable video of newborn dumbo octopus (Washington Post 20feb18)
ROV-mounted sediment corer
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]A new ROV- or AUV-mounted product was announced last month by Ocean Scientific International in the UK, which will recover a 400mm sample (300mm sediment and 100mm supernatant water) from depths of up to 1200m: Subsea World News 22jan18[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”none” src=”http://www.undersearov.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/osil-sediment-corer-320×427.jpg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]
Ice-water Rescue Team Trains with ROV
A rescue team in South Dakota is training for winter water rescues with a Seamor Marine ROV under 14 inches of ice: Kota Territory News 08feb18
MantaDroid from Singapore
[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]National University of Singapore researchers have designed an underwater robot that mimics the movements of a manta ray: Reuters 04dec2017[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][x_image type=”none” src=”http://www.undersearov.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Mantadroid-REUTERS-Edgar-Su.jpeg” alt=”” link=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][cs_text]Photo from REUTERS – Edgar Su[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][/cs_content]