SEAMOR ROV Recovered, Revived from the Deep of Lake Michigan
A Great Lakes shipwreck hunter was reunited with his missing ROV, lost for eight years in Lake Michigan at a depth of 134 m–and it still works.
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McLane Releases Wave-Actuated Profiling Crawler for 500 m Depths
McLane Research Labs has released the Prawler (PRofiling crAWLER), a low-cost, wave-actuated vehicle that moves along the mooring wire, collecting data from the surface to 500 m of the water column. Data can include conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD), optical backscatter and dissolved oxygen. Wave motion and special ratcheting clamps move the vehicle up the wire. The Prawler free-falls to the
Read moreRBR Opens New Office at Ocean Innovation Center
Ottawa-based sensor developer RBR is joining a collaborative ocean technologies center called COVE. COVE, the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship, is a collaborative facility for applied innovation in the ocean sector located in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada. RBR is a company that creates instruments to measure the blue planet. From the ocean abyss to the polar ice
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