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Underwater Milestone
The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry passed a milestone in October 2018, when it completed its 500th dive. The free-swimming, programmable robot was designed and built by WHOI engineers and completed its first…
Read MoreUnderwater Voyager
WHOI engineer Mike McCarthy works on the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry after testing at the dock in Woods Hole. Sentry’s suite of sensors makes it uniquely equipped for oceanographic investigation through…
Read MoreUnderwater at the Top of the World
WHOI geochemist Chris German (left) and Louis Whitcomb, chair of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, along with Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegner Institute, display Explorer’s Club Flag…
Read MoreMission: Underwater
Two Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) vehicles were stowed on R/V Neil Armstrong before the ship departed on the final leg of a three-leg expedition to service parts of the National…
Read MoreTwo Vehicles Better Than One?
The submersible Alvin and the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry are among the most advanced underwater research tools available. To make the most of limited ship time, scientists sometimes use the…
Read MoreGliding Underwater
An autonomous underwater glider, is recovered to the R/V Knorr. The glider, preprogrammed with navigation waypoints before deployment, maneuvers through the ocean without an external propulsion system, traversing the upper…
Read MoreUnderwater Maintenance
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin for the national oceanographic community. Alvin, built in 1964 as the world’s first deep-ocean submersible, has made more than…
Read MoreUnderwater Microscope
Dennis McGillicuddy (left) and Cabell Davis with a video plankton recorder (VPR) designed to work on the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. The VPR is an underwater video microscope system that…
Read MoreUnderwater Reconnaisance
Greg Packard (right) puts a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle through pre-launch checks before testing near Woods Hole. The vehicle, capable of diving to 600 meters, carries sensors for underwater…
Read MoreObserving Mooring Deployment at Pioneer Array
Logan Johnsen, chief mate on the research vessel Neil Armstrong, stood watch on the bridge recently during a mooring deployment at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array. Instruments on the array record physical, chemical, and biological data from the seafloor to the surface and above around the clock, 365 days a year. Twice each year, a team from WHOI visits the Pioneer site, located about 100 miles south of Marthas Vineyard, to replace all of the moorings in the array and to deploy autonomous underwater vehicles that record data further afield.
Read MoreThe Ocean of Things 2-page illustration
The digital ocean ecosystem of the future—the Networked Ocean—will rely on an integrated network of underwater vehicles, sensors, and communications systems that will cover the ocean in an ‘always on,…
Read MoreFirst drawn map of the Titanic wreck site
Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured by deep-sea…
Read MoreMia and Kaitlyn: Between Two Robots
You’ve seen the comedy talk show Between Two Ferns. Now check out BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, where kids grill #WHOI scientists about the #OceanTwilightZone.
Read MoreEscorting an Ocean Drone
WHOI Engineer Kevin Manganini escorts a JetYak autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) through the waters off Chappaquidick, which became its own island in 2007 after a storm created an inlet that separated it…
Read MoreCurrent Affairs
The Galápagos Islands are home to species found nowhere else on Earth, such as this land iguana. This unique ecosystem depends on nutrients brought to the islands by the Equatorial…
Read MoreGliding Beneath Florence
WHOI oceanographer Robert Todd launched a Spray glider like this toward the path of Hurricane Florence to measure the amount of heat stored in the ocean. Hurricanes are fueled by warm…
Read MoreA Visit from the CNO
Admiral John Richardson, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations, visited WHOI in September, 2016, and received a number of briefings on research, technology, and assets sponsored by the Navy,…
Read MoreGetting a Grip on Gliders
Senior engineering assistant Diana Wickman shows part of an ocean glider to elementary school students from the Mullen-Hall School in Falmouth, Mass., during their annual Green Bus tour. Gliders and…
Read MoreFast “Flyer”
The NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array includes two types of observing systems: fixed moorings and mobile vehicles, such as this REMUS 600. With its powerful built-in propulsion system, a…
Read MoreThe Jetyak
Here’s a new addition to the fleet of oceanographic vehicles: the Jetyak. It was developed by WHOI scientists Peter Traykovski and Hanu Singh, who adapted a commercially available gas-powered kayak.…
Read MoreGlider Away!
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn assists with the launch of an ocean glider at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Coastal Pioneer Array, about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The autonomous underwater…
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