Building a Fully Autonomous Submarine to Reach the Titanic
Filip and Peter from the CPSdrone YouTube channel have a dream to capture a photo of the RMS Titanic where it rests on the floor North Atlantic a few hundred miles from Newfoundland. Conventional ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) tend to be the default choice for jobs like that, but they’re expensive and require support ships on the surface. So, the CPSdrone boys came up with an alternative: a fully autonomous submarine.
I don’t want to get your hopes up, so I will come right out and say that they do not reach the Titanic in this video — that is a long term goal. So far, this video series has been about the development and construction of the submarine.
The wreckage of the Titanic sits at a depth of around 12,500 feet (more than two miles) below the ocean’s surface. A conventional ROV would therefore need a tether at...
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