While inflames the gold rush of the 21st century, a treasure hunter goes through high-tech ways to search for sunken treasure from satellites studying the oceans from space, to reasonable underwater drones. "Often, while on the surface of the sea, you can not even imagine that you have a land, the land, - explains Will O'Halloran, Director of Marine Operations in Bluefin Robotics. - There's mountain ranges, deserts, canyons, plateaus, steep cliffs. We fly over them, like on an airplane. "
Bluefin makes autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) - underwater drones, which are themselves "flying" over the sea, scanning the seabed on the grid, the marked operators. Unlike other "remote-controlled" devices, they are not tied to the boat and are not controlled by the people, so they have to rely on their own terrain and with the mind, and then back to the ship in one piece.
Such techniques have long been used by the military, for example, for the detection of underwater mines. But the gold rush in full swing - and drones began to be used to search for wrecks treasure. Technology is perfectly suited for sunken mining prospecting. But what is the possibility of getting the treasure hunters of the 21st century, armed with modern gadgets?
In the workshop Bluefin Robotics, in the south of Boston, collected most of the APA. Past piles of parts and components sometimes are engineers and electricians. APA are pressure sensitive, waterproof enclosures for electronics protection. They also contain hard blocks, which are compressed under pressure, allowing water to enter the special chamber, thus controlling the depth to buoyancy. It's like a small submarine reasonable.
Some of the devices over a meter in length - at least one platform four square meters in length - others are relatively small, less than one meter in length.
APA Bluefin used for searching flights Malaysian "Boeing» MH370, which disappeared March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board. They also helped Paul Allen of Microsoft to find a lost battleship during World War II. O'Halloran said that public events like these even more kindled interest in using drones to search for sunken ships.
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