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Navy Rear Admiral Nevin P. Carr (left) touring WHOI the REMUS lab recently with Ocean Systems Lab Principal Engineer Tom Austin. The autonomous vehicles are designed for coastal monitoring as well as survey operations at various depths in the ocean. Oceanographers use them as a vehicle to carry a wide variety of ocean instruments and sensors for data collection. Members of the military also use REMUS, usually to locate submerged mines.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)