Underwater Vehicles
Pop Goes the Seafloor Rock
WHOI scientists used the human-occupied submersible Alvin and the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry to explore a surprising discovery: gas-filled volcanic rocks on the seafloor that “pop” when brought up to the surface.
Read MoreGirls Just Wanna Be Engineers
“Very few women go into engineering,” said Anna Michel, “because girls just don’t get the message that they could be…
Read MoreThe Hot Spot Below Yellowstone Park
WHOI scientist Rob Sohn brought an arsenal of deep-sea technology normally used to explore the seafloor to the bottom of Yellowstone Lake, where a team of researchers investigated the subsurface geothermal activity hidden from view in the national park.
Read MorePlankZooka & SUPR-REMUS
Much of marine life begins as microscopic larvae—so tiny, delicate, and scattered in hard-to-reach parts of ocean that scientists have…
Read MoreWhen the Hunter Became the Hunted
In waters off Mexico’s Guadalupe Island, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) engineers deployed the REMUS SharkCam, a torpedo-shaped robotic vehicle…
Read MoreThe Hunt for Undiscovered Drugs at the Bottom of the Sea
mentions HOV Alvin
OASIS Scientists Catch High-Tech Ride to the Bottom of the Sea
features OASIS Expedition
mentions HOV Alvin, AUV Sentry and MISO TowCam
Chasing Microbes: The Secret Superheroes of Our Planet
features video of and by HOV Alvin as well as R/V Atlantis
Why Did the El Faro Sink?
WHOI deep-sea vehicles and scientists played critical roles in searching the seafloor and locating the voyage data recorder of El Faro, the ship that sank in 2015 during Hurricane Joaquin, killing all 33 crew members.
Read MoreAfter Overhaul, Jason Is Stronger Than Ever
Jason, the workhorse remotely operated deep-sea vehicle, underwent a top-to-bottom overhaul that dramatically increased its capabilities.
Read MoreCommunicating Under Sea Ice
Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed a new communication and navigation system that works over long distances under Arctic sea ice, allowing scientists to use autonomous underwater vehicles to explore the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
Read MoreAncient Deep Sea Corals Need Protection From Modern Threats
mentions WHOI and HOV Alvin
BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING ON THE OCEAN FLOOR
quotes Dan Fornari and mentions Alvin sub
To Track a Sea Turtle
A WHOI engineer and biologist devise an autonomous system to track and film sea turtles beneath the surface, revealing a turtle’s eye view of the world.
Read MoreSCIENTISTS USE UNDERSEA DRONES TO HELP PREDICT HURRICANES
quotes Glen Gawarkiewicz and mentions WHOI
also picked up by other major news outlets: ABC New and CNBC among others
Launch and Recovery of AUV Sentry
TurtleCam 2016: A Turtle’s-eye-view
Highlights from recent TurtleCam missions include video of a leatherback turtle being tagged, views of tagged turtles from the REMUS…
Read MoreSharkCam Lost and Found
At the end of their December 2015 expedition to the shark-filled waters off Guadalupe Island, the SharkCam team lost contact…
Read MoreReturn of SharkCam: Into the Dark
SharkCam returned to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, to follow great white sharks deeper and into the night to give researchers never-before-seen…
Read MoreInside SharkCam
Learn how REMUS SharkCam is able to take you into the world of the great white shark to give you…
Read MoreSharkCam Tracks Great Whites into the Deep
On the first trip to study great white sharks in the wild off Guadalupe Island in 2013, the REMUS SharkCam team returned with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) tattooed with bite marks and some of the most dramatic footage ever seen on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: large great white sharks attacking the underwater robot, revealing previously unknown details about strategies sharks use to hunt and interact with their prey.
Read MoreA New Eye on Deep-Sea Fisheries
Imagine that officials charged with setting deer-hunting limits had to assess the herd’s abundance by flying over forests at night.…
Read MoreBeneath the Sea, the Galápagos Reveal More Marvels
The Galápagos Islands have offered biologists a natural laboratory ever since Charles Darwin’s day, but they’re also a frontier for…
Read More‘Popping rocks’ with robots
mentions WHOI and HOV Alvin
