Underwater Vehicles
Robots to the Rescue
How the next generation of ocean robots will help solve the planet’s most pressing problems
Automating Exploration
For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Amy Phung, virtual reality and robotics are a natural pairing…
A throwback to ABE
The OG autonomous seafloor robot
Sunlight and the fate of oil at sea
Danielle Haas Freeman draws on the language of chemistry to solve an oil spill puzzle
Who is Alvin and what are sea trials?
If you like the deep sea and exploring for science, you’re going to love Alvin!
How to study an underwater earthquake from shore
Scientist Chris German on a successful AUV Sentry mission when the science team could not…
Meet the Sentry Team: Justin Fujii
Research engineer Justin Fujii on working with autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry
7 Places and Things Alvin Can Explore Now
With its new depth rating of 6500 meters (4 miles), WHOI's human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin…
Meet the Jason Team: Mario Fernandez
A mechanical engineer, pilot, and expedition leader on vehicle design and adventures at sea
Meet the Sentry Team: Amanda Sutherland
A Mechanical engineer on independent workflow and collaboration
The story of “Little Alvin” and the lost H-bomb
How the famed submersible found a lost hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea during the…
Meet the Alvin 6500 Team: Lisa Smith
Alvin Certification Coordinator Lisa Smith on working with Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to get…
Summer with Sentry: Intern Renee Gruner-Mitchell
Renee Gruner-Mitchell on her internship working on AUV Sentry at the National Deep Submergence Facility…
WHOI breaks in new research facility with MURAL Hack-A-Thon
Engineers use test tanks and 3D printers to prototype an acoustic sensor in the new…
Overhaul to take Alvin to greater extremes
Work on Iconic Sub Will Put 99% of The Ocean Floor Within Reach
New glider design aims to expand access to ocean science
Gliders are vehicles vital to collecting oceanographic data, but not accessible to everyone in the…
Five things to know about NOAA’s 2021 Tech Demo
Researchers prepare WHOI’s autonomous underwater vehicle, Orpheus for its first deep dive of 2021Tech Demo.
Meet the Alvin 6500 Team: Rose Wall
Alvin Engineer Rose Wall on joining the Alvin Group during an overhaul and the pandemic.
From Mars to the deep
Navigation technology that helped NASA’s Perseverance rover land safely on Mars could guide robots in…
Five extreme places to do ocean research
Whether they're under the ice at the furthest poles or hovering above the ocean's deepest…
Racing an undersea volcano
Using AUV Sentry to make a high-resolution, near-bottom, seafloor map before the next volcanic eruption…
The Rise of Orpheus
WHOI’s new deep-sea autonomous underwater vehicle moves one step closer to exploring the hadal zone—the…
Rapid Response at Sea
As sea ice continues to melt in the Arctic and oil exploration expands in the…
A new way of “seeing” offshore wind power cables
Eager to share best practices and technical know-how with the offshore wind sector, WHOI researchers…