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Robo-sailor

WHOI engineer Greg Packard prepares an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) called REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) for loading onto the research vessel Knorr in 2004. REMUS vehicles are low-cost AUVs designed by the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory for coastal monitoring and survey operations at various depths in the ocean.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)