Proteus 1517
This weekend Richard and I made a few final touches on our OpenROV, Proteus. The camera and all the controls are functioning fine, and all the seals are good. Though we have some minor details to follow up on with the depth sensor, I’d say the build is complete!
Check out our expedition at OpenExplorer where you can see a video of us running a test on the ROV’s controls.
https://openexplorer.com/expedition/newenglandexplorers
Proteus
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In October of 2014 a fellow OpenExplorer & Marine Biologist Asha De Vos did a TEDtalk and it has just been posted on the from page at TED.com. We’re very excited to see her work get the attention it deserves! Asha opens with mentioning the whales in Cape Cod bay, a place close to home for us.
You can see it at:
http://www.ted.com/talks/asha_de_vos_why_you_should_care_about_whale_poo
Here story at Nation Geographic:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/16/poos-clues/
And her Open Explorer expedition:
https://openexplorer.com/expedition/savingbluewhalesfromshipstrike
Asha @ TED
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The Stern
On January 1st, Richard and I fabricated a special rigging for the GoPro using PVC and a rail mount. The new mount would allow us to secure the camera over the side of the kayak, and position it facing in any direction using the two universal joints.
With the new camera mount, we went for a second visit to the remains of the 1873 British bark Bessie Rogers on Saturday. With the camera attached to the kayak, facing down and set to take photos every seconds, I paddled over to the wreck.
I broke up the area into four lanes. Once a lane was completed, since the camera was mounted on the starboard side, I turned around and repeated the lane. The entire wreck took about a half hour or more to cover. In the end we collected over 2000 photos
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