October 2007
Marine Technology Reporter · Volume 50 · Number 8
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AUVs
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A $1.8B Proposition
The market for autonomous underwater vehicles is set to escalate rapidly, to $1.8b by 2017. -- By Paul Newman, Rod Westwood & John Westwood Design
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Breaking Barriers
The Marion Hyper-Sub promises to deliver amazing new capabilities in subsea exploration and work. IOOS
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The Way Forward
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) will be a sustained network of "eyes" on buoys, ships, satellites, underwater vehicles, in-situ sensors and other platforms. The authors discuss IOOS' current status. -- By Zdenka Willis & Kim Cohen Offshore
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A NEW VIEW
What would it be like to walk around an oil reservoir below the sea floor? A visualization lab at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, offers this capability via its 3D visualization lab. -- by By Dawna Greening & Dan Vasiliu UUST `07
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Unmanned, Untethered
A report on technology developments from the Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology Conference recently held in NH. -- By Maggie Linskey Merrill
Pictured in the background is the original drawing -- by an 11-year-old Reynolds Marion, 32 years ago -- of the Hyper-Sub, which recently took to the waters under the watchful eye of military contractors. Read about the HyperSub, starting on page 25
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