Sup yall. Not sure if it's been posted before, so I wanted to share this channel that I've fallen in love with since discovering them. In addition to highlight reels they do livestreams which are great long play style videos. It's always fun to watch along as they come across interesting species or places.
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I wanted to give a bit of a breakdown on their mission and ROVs, cause it's super cool stuff. All shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia.
EV Nautilus
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Nautilus is operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust under the direction of the dude who found the Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck. In addition to four ROVs it utilizes a suite of mapping tools which all combined allow for extensive exploration to 4000 meters deep. The Nautilus is also equipped with satellite communication systems to allow it to livestream for scientific collaboration and public interest. Livestreams can be found at their website [url]www.NautilusLive.org[/url].
The two main ROVs:
Hercules
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Argus
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Argus, rated to 6000m, primarily supports Hercules by providing a view of Hercules on the seafloor, though it can go it alone if the mission calls for it. Hercules needs Argus to operate, and is rated to 4000m. While both are equipped with HD and SD cameras, the instrumentation on Hercules is incredibly sophisticated. Hercules has a more extensive camera array, a set of manipulator arms which allow it to collect samples, and a number of other tools including sediment coring equipment. Used with the other navigation systems, it can hover and maneuver on a centimeter-scale grid.
I couldn't find pictures of Diana or Echo, the two sonar systems which map the floor for areas of interest and support the primary vehicles.
Here's a super cool video showing how accurate the primary manipulator arm is:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFMpnlIso0[/media]
Skip to 1:15 if you are only interested in the arm.
I wish there were some tiny camera-equipped ROVs which could get down into shipwrecks and explore the interiors. It would be incredible to see the inside of a submarine that's been underwater this whole time.
New video!
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[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52622194]I wish there were some tiny camera-equipped ROVs which could get down into shipwrecks and explore the interiors. It would be incredible to see the inside of a submarine that's been underwater this whole time.[/QUOTE]
That'd be sweet, though it'd be a very difficult engineering task to fight the pressure and currents on such a small scale.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;52622194]I wish there were some tiny camera-equipped ROVs which could get down into shipwrecks and explore the interiors. It would be incredible to see the inside of a submarine that's been underwater this whole time.[/QUOTE]
There's actually a company that makes these things, although they can only down to 100M, alot shallower than most of these wrecks.
[url]https://www.openrov.com/[/url]
It would be cool if they looked at the USS Scorpion or USS Thresher. Both are unusual wrecks in that they're nuclear powered subs. They're within diving depth of their ROV.
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