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Re: support vessels
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 08:25:23 -0600, you wrote:
> I've been hearing bits of the news about this latest downed-at-sea airliner, and the salvage efforts. It's supposed to be in like 250 feet of water, and they keep having to delay because of the weather. I'm guessing this is due to the requirements of the surface vessels rather than the zubmersibles. There are the ships from which they operate the ROV, and the ones dragging sonar instruments, and so on.
Personally, I think this is where AUVs come in, for finding the
location of the black box. You head on out to the site in a small
boat, throw half a dozen AUV's overboard. They network together using
acoustic modems, and set up a search grid, listening for the black box
beepers. When the find them, they drop a marker beacon in the area,
and then the big ships with the ROVs come out and retrieve the boxes.
Later,
Jon