Monday, March 20, 2017

Day 1 at MarineQuest

Arriving at the University of North Carolina Marine Science Center.  We began with a tour and an overview of the day and the week.


Checking out the weather buoys.


In the lab building ROVs. 


Testing out the motors.


Testing in the water tank.  Will it maneuver?


Final fixing of robots before the final challenge.

Practicing controlling the robots.

Group 1's ROV robot. 

Group 2's ROV robot.

Group 3's ROV robot.

Collecting Fouling samples at the marina.

Collecting Fouling samples at the marina.

Mr. M explaining all the animals we collected!