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Where's Waldo (the Submarine)?

Posted by timothy on from the keep-an-eye-out dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished. The robot from the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has been missing since Monday. The robot, which cost about $100,000, was equipped with a detector to find red tide, a toxic algae bloom. The detector was valued at another $30,000. Scientists aren't sure what happened to the robot, which is nicknamed Waldo."

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  1. Better links by mjensen · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2009/9/5/where39s_waldo_the_answer_could_net_you_500.html
    and
    http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=news&submenu=NEWS&srctype=detail&category=Newsroom&refno=295

    $500 reward for finding it....

  2. Re:Locate using GPS ? by BungaDunga · · Score: 3, Informative

    Water absorbs the radio waves you need to use to triangulate your position, so GPS doesn't work underwater. They put GPS tags on whales and things, but they only work when the whale surfaces.

  3. Re:For Future Reference... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, he's serious.

    This link was provided by a previous poster.

    Waldo - along with two other AUVs nicknamed Carmen and Nemo - has been "on the job" for Mote since 2005