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MATE 2008 - Hydrothermal Homeschool

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV Competition is an annual competition of High School and undergraduate college teams to design an underwater ROV and complete a simulated mission using their ROV in a controlled environment (think swimming pool). This year the mission (pdf) was to deploy an ROV to a hydrothermal vent [...]

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Saving the Deep

Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Alvin on deployment — one of the submersibles used on the Sea Mounts along with the Hercules and Argustandem ROV system.Image from mpi-bremen.de

From Deep Sea News comes a post that is right on time for me. Deep Sea News is a science blog run by a Post-Doc from MBARI, a research assistant from [...]

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Journey to the Deep

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Jan. 23, 1960: Journey to the Deepest Place on Earth: “Its dive into the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the trench, was made, according to a Navy press release, ‘to demonstrate that the United States possesses the capability for manned exploration of the sea down to the deepest part of its floor.’”
(Via Wired.com)
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