Yellowfin REMUS

WHOI engineer Daniel Bogorff launches a REMUS 6000 off of the Institution’s dock in Woods Hole’s Great Harbor. Equipped with high-resolution bathymetric scanning technology and an extended-life battery pack, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is capable of swimming, surveying, and mapping difficult terrain deep beneath the surface. In addition to its successful discovery of Air France Flight 447 wreckage in 2010, the REMUS 6000 has discovered deep underwater corals and surveyed the seafloor near the wreck of the Titanic. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)