DEEP SEA DRONES

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DEEP SEA DRONES
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• There appears to be no limit to the capabilities
  of unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as
  drones, with technology pushing them to achieve
  feats few would have thought possible a decade or
  so ago. NASAs propulsion laboratory, have joined
  forces with WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic
  Institution to design and build a drone that
  could set the new standard for deep sea
  exploration.
• Orpheus The Underwater Drone
• In fact, Orpheus does a lot more than simply
  travel underwater this small autonomous
  robot-like drone can travel down to the very
  depths of the worlds deepest oceans, some of
  which have never been seen before, let alone
  explored.

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• There is even the hope that one day, this tiny
  drone may venture as far as the solar system and
  explore the extraterrestrial worlds oceans.
• Orpheus was deployed off the waters of Cape Cod
  back in September 2018, and once it had completed
  its mission, it was successfully brought out of
  the water, much to the relief of the deep-sea
  biologists and scientists involved in the
  mission. One of the biologists present that day
  had sent a previously designed autonomous craft
  far many miles beneath the oceans surface, but it
  had never re-emerged, lost forever in the murky
  depths.

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• Designed to land 36,000 feet down on the deepest
  part of the ocean floor, the crafts job is to
  sift through the ground never explored before,
  remember gather up samples and bring them back
  up to the surface.
• How successful was Orpheus in its first
  underwater mission?
• Quite apart from the fact that the robot returned
  to the surface when recalled, it had driven alone
  into the deepest depths of the ocean for a full
  hour with no human at the controls. There are 4
  cameras attached to the drone, with each one
  taking images that would later be pieced
  together, but the hope is to have a fleet of them
  working together.

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• So successful was Orpheuss first mission, that
  it has driven scientists and tech designers to
  continue improving upon its capabilities. The
  craft was able to successfully provide 3D images
  of the sea floor to those waiting up on dry land,
  proving that it can explore, map and photograph
  such a murky and potentially dangerous area of
  the ocean with no human at the controls, and with
  no tangible link from craft to human.
• What the future holds for autonomous deep sea
  exploration
• With vast areas of the worlds oceans yet to be
  explored, scientists, biologists, and charities
  are pooling their funds to help facilitate more
  ocean exploration missions, including the
  research missions undertaken by Orpheus.

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• With Orpheus being a mere 5 feet in length and
  weighing only around 550 pounds, there is much
  more scope for developing such crafts, since the
  cost is significantly lower and its easier to
  do conventional robotic exploration crafts or
  ROVs are the size of a large car and are far
  more expensive to create.
• Over the next couple of years, Orpheus and other
  autonomous vehicles like it will employ
  image-recognition technology, such as that which
  is currently used in autonomous cars, and while
  it has yet to enter the hadopelagic zone, or
  hadal zone (the deepest region of the ocean lying
  within oceanic trenches), there is hope that with
  its ability to endure pressure, this may be a
  possibility one day.

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• It seems as if the deepest darkest, murkiest and
  previously uncharted depths of the worlds
  oceans, may not be such a mystery to us all for
  much longer.
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