Deep Ocean to Deep Space

There was a Mini Maker Faire in Dover, NH recently and I noticed a photo of Darrell Morris, apparently from the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard doing a demonstration of Sea Perch,  a small underwater robot.  Reminded me of the time I spent working on EAVE, an autonomous underwater vehicle being developed and tested at the Marine Systems Engineering Lab at UNH.  EAVE was an AUV, meaning she was on her own once released and Sea Perches are ROV, remotely operated. This program is a STEM project to use building an underwater robot to introduce kids to science and technology. I know that MIT, UNH, PNSY and Bath Iron Works have all participated in this program. I am hoping I can find some connections and perhaps volunteer my time to helping out with this in the Seacoast area.

You can learn more at: http://www.seaperch.org/about

A few shots of EAVE leaving and returning from a mission on Mendum’s Pond, New Hampshire, probably summer 1983.