Anyone who's gone to sea knows
that when you're at the dock it's just a fundamentally different culture
when you get on that boat you go onto the water you become more a part of the
ocean and more in tune with it and it just changed the perception philosophy of everything
pilot dive super go ahead dev super let's descend at 15 meters a minute hold at 50.
good copy coming down typically on the Okeanos Explorer typically NOAA Ocean
Exploration we're leading remotely operated vehicle expeditions and mapping expeditions
We've dialed in telepresence exploration where we're connecting with uh folks on
shore where we're connecting with folks on the ship we're streaming our video to
shore we're streaming our data to shore we're using the latest in ocean mapping technology
we're always making improvements to our remotely operated vehicle system
and we need to think about what ocean exploration looks like five years from now
maybe not next year maybe not on this cruise but down the line we're working towards those goals
the constant forward moving of technology is really important to the science
i mean innovation is how we how we move forward technology demonstration allows us a little room
to breathe and allows us to try out some new technology and see how they work on the field
we are attempting to do a magnetic calibration of the compass that is inside of Orpheus which will
allow us when we're underneath the water to know whether we're going north south
east or west this Orpheus class vehicle is the only class i know of that's designed to
sit down and sense the sea floor take push cores of the sediment sense something you know send an
oxygen sensor down in the sediment see it in this oxygen there who's expiring there take a sample
you know who's doing that kind of work that's for forefront well NASA Jet Propulsion Lab it's
got this terrain builder navigation software that stitches things together makes it 3d you know and
makes a feature map and that same software is in the Ingenuity helicopter it's in the Perseverance
rover so that's how the rover landed it took pictures on the way in all right coming up
we have fed off each other in our knowledge of oceanography we get
the knowledge of oceanography they give us technology and software that we never
thought we could have you know and it's just the melding of the minds
it's not just the hard bolts and nuts that the technology right it's the imagination
and the ingenuity that comes from these engineers that makes this so important
if some if we lose a vehicle we lose part of a vehicle we lose
the navigation system software crashes and doesn't work and it's
we've got to start all over again then that's what we'll have to do
You didn't stop painting a Sistine Chapel because it got hard or it got hot or you know
ran out of paint right you have to keep going and it's the passion that has to keep you
going it's a commitment to be here with these vehicles now is this is another one of our our
benchmarks right in the phased design construction operation these vehicles here's another benchmark
this is where you want to be
being on the water is the place to be this is where we really learn
we test things we need this time on the ocean
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