• Boaty McBoatface's first Antarctic dive
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[video=youtube;CjyrruHrC60]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjyrruHrC60[/video] [QUOTE]Boaty McBoatface, the Autosub Long Range submersible operated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), has completed its first Antarctic sortie beneath the waves of the Southern Ocean. A team of researchers from the University of Southampton and BAS, along with NOC engineers and technicians, in the Antarctic on a research cruise for the DynOPO project aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross. They deployed Boaty in the Weddell Sea, near the South Orkney Islands, on Tuesday 4 April. During its first real-world Antarctic deployment, the unmanned vehicle was under water for nearly 30 hours, following a pre-programmed route before surfacing for fine-tuning by the engineering team on Wednesday 5 April. [/QUOTE] [url=https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/first-dive-boaty-mcboatface/]Article[/url] Pretty cool that it came out of my university
I still can't help myself but smile when I see that name
I love how this thing is going to get more publicity than the other research vessel that pussied out of calling itself boaty mcboatface
[QUOTE=Xavith;52084392]I love how this thing is going to get more publicity than the other research vessel that pussied out of calling itself boaty mcboatface[/QUOTE] The other vessel, RRS Sir David Attenborough is, I was led to believe, planned to be this one's replacement when it launches and the same sub will operate out of it. [editline]I was right[/editline] from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough"]Wikipedia[/URL]: "In this, the ship is intended to replace a pair of existing vessels, RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton." [editline]DUMB FUCKING CUNT[/editline] [QUOTE=thejjokerr;52084540][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface[/url] The mothership was what the poll was for. But instead this submersible got the name most voted for.[/QUOTE] Yes and the sub is based on that ship.
from the entire video it looks like they are hiding the name stamp of the subthing.
I guess it's a nice compromise
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