Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to BBC News, a new UK autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), Autosub6000, will soon start to explore the world's deepest undersea volcanoes, located in the Caribbean. Autosub6000 has a range of up to 1,000 kilometers and has a maximum operating depth of 6,000 meters. It is 5.5 meters long, has a diameter of 0.9 meters, and is equipped with a high-performance GPS unit. For these two expeditions, each close to a month long, Autosub6000 will be joined by the Isis remotely operated vehicle, which is able to operate at a depth of 6,000 meters and grab animal specimens. Researchers from the National Oceanography Center in Southampton will lead these missions. They expect that 'one in every two animals they come across will be a species new to science' once the robots reach a depth of 3,000 meters." Specifications for the submarine (PDF) are also available.

Comments

That's been around for years.

[Toe, The]

There's been a submarine exploring the Cayman Trough for years now.

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GPS?

[jeffb (2.718)]

Wouldn't it have to be awfully high-performance GPS to work under 6km of water?

Robot goes down

[nategoose]

I like my headline better.

As long as they don't bring a nuke down there.

[FlyingSquidStudios]

It really pisses the aliens off.

Re:As long as they don't bring a nuke down there.

[strabes]

Come on, Nessie isn't an alien. Oh wait, that's in England.

Lyrics

[PatTheGreat]

In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines

So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our Robot submarine

We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine

And our friends are all on board
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play

We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine

[Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!
Full speed over here, sir!
Action station! Action station!
Aye, aye, sir, fire!
Heaven! Heaven!]

As we live a life of ease (A life of ease)
Everyone of us (Everyone of us) has all we need (Has all we need)
Sky of blue (Sky of blue) and sea of green (Sea of green)
In our Robot (In our Robot) submarine (Submarine, ha, ha)

We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine

Iä Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn!

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if the stars aren't aligned, just poke the Great Old Ones with a nifty unmanned submarine! :)

Re:Animal specimens?

[NoPantsJim]

The Smurfs seem to be doing okay.

Gratuitous Venture Brothers quote:

Henchman 24: Come on, they have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs!
Henchman 21: Oh my god, you're crazy, they are so obviously mammals!
Henchman 24: Please, she'd be in estrus 24/7 if she didn't lay eggs!
Henchman 21: Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again. Papa Smurf has a fucking beard, they're mammals!

Jokes on Them

[lordfoul]

I put a ROBOTS.TXT down there last month.

mods missed both the wink and the link ;)

[paulthomas]

Looks like someone missed both the link and the winking emoticon.

At a depth of about 60 feet, which is quite comfortable given life support, I was a little startled when that very submarine snuck up on me scuba diving near Sunset House.