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AUV Sentry revealed new view of Bermuda’s seamounts

Louis Whitcomb, a professor in the JHU department of mechanical engineering and an adjunct scientist at WHOI, has lead #NSFfunded @ NSF_Geo studies on the navigation, dynamics, and control of robotic systems in seafloor with many seamounts, including the shallow Challenger seamount (located at a depth of 164 feet, or 50 meters) to the southwest…

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AUV Sentry finishing the cruise AE1824 today (with an old sailing mate at BIOS)

The AUV Sentry Team is completing a cruise on R/V Atlantic Explorer (Cruise AE1824) today. This is an NSF-funded science and engineering research expedition lead by Professor Louis Whitcomb (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. James Kinsey (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) to test a novel directional sensing device and innovative acoustic communication methods. Like any UNOLS…

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NDSF vehicles reveal what happened to the El Faro

From the Cape Cod Times: The National Transportation Safety Board found the ship’s wreckage a few weeks after the sinking. In April 2016, with the help of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, it located the voyage data recorder, a device roughly the size of a basketball, in a 13.5-square-mile debris field. WHOI used two unmanned…

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