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Manned Submersible Completes 4,000-Meter Validation Dive

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OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush successfully piloted the deep-diving, five-person submersible, Titan, on a solo 4,000-meter dive. Rush joins James Cameron as the second person in history to complete a solo dive to this depth. The 4,000-meter validation dive took place on Monday, December 10, 2018 approximately 12 miles east of Little Harbour on Great Abaco Island, Bahamas. The dive was

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General Dynamics Releases New Portable UUV

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General Dynamics Mission Systems released the new Bluefin-9 autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) at the OCEANS ’18 conference in Charleston, SC. Featuring a full carbon fiber body, the redesigned vehicle combines high navigational accuracy and high sonar resolution to deliver detailed subsurface data in minutes. The portable UUV provides the same data collection capabilities of larger UUVs, and it can

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