Sentences with phrase «research submersibles»

That's because his center runs two of the three manned research submersibles based in the United States, as well as a new remotely operated vehicle.

Ballard himself has been close to death several times in small research submersibles.

The bottom of the ocean in the research submersible Alvin.

Off the coast of Oahu, Dr. Earle, «descended 1,250 feet (381m) while strapped to the front of a small research submersible.

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To see his subjects up close, McClain hops a ride in a submersible, a 23 - by -8-foot research vessel designed to withstand the enormous pressure at seafloor levels.

At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.

The school is well - known not only for the first experimental submarine, the first hydrofoil craft, the first shipboard computer, the first swath bathymeter set and dozens of other major gap - filling scientific research breakthroughs, but also for being the best in the world with several achievements such as duplex submersible vehicles, hovercrafts and gradient velocimeters.

According to Julian Paren of the British Antarctic Survey, submersibles like the adapted torpedo have an important part to play in ice research because it is virtually impossible for research ships to go near pack ice, especially in winter.

From the research vessel Alucia the scientists conducted technical scuba dives and descended in a three - person submersible to examine deep coral reef biofluorescence down to 1,000 meters.

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar researResearch Council to name the UK's new polar researchresearch ship.

«I have led four previous expeditions to this site, each aided by submersible research technology to explore the sea floor — including a 2012 expedition where we used Sentry to saturate adjacent areas with sonar and photo images,» Van Dover said.

The Russians will use the world's largest research ship, the Akademik Keldysh, which carries two manned submersibles.

«Free - swimming divers and submersibles don't often work side - by - side on scientific research projects,» said Pyle.

The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible is the centerpiece of DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, a joint scientific project by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep - ocean research.

While the ship will be named after famous naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, the popular suggestion of the contest — Boaty McBoatface — lives on in the form of an unmanned submersible that will support the research ship to explore parts of the polar regions inaccessible to humans.

Remotely operated submersibles; propulsion systems; application of close loop control of remotely operated vehicles; introduction of remotely operated systems for oceanographic research

In order to find out if these plumes are the result of that recent warming or are simply a feature of the area, a team of researchers led by Christian Berndt of Germany's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel used a submersible to get a look at the seafloor where the methane is bubbling up.