The need for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for intervention missions becomes greater as they can perform underwater tasks requiring physical contacts with the underwater environment, such as underwater plug-in/plug-out, construction and repair, cable streaming, mine hunting, munitions retrieval, and scientific sampling.
We set up three strobe lights above water that we triggered with a custom-made sync cord that attaches to the underwater housing and plugs into a transmitter above water.
From bone conducting technology to underwater MP3 players that plug straight into your computer, there's something here for every swimmer.
HOUSTON — Cleanup crews, fishermen and residents along the oil-slicked Gulf Coast waited anxiously on Thursday morning for word on whether BP's latest effort to plug a gushing underwater oil well had succeeded.
Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Mexico, a feckless work crew tried to plug BP's underwater gusher with a junk shot, pumping pieces of rope, shredded tires and golf balls along with mud and debris into the blowout preventer.
Dell will launch its gizmo in Britain in June and in America later during the summer.As the oil slick off America's Gulf Coast washed ashore, BP made yet another attempt to plug the gushing underwater pipeline that has caused the disaster.
I'm playing my clarinet onboard a boat into a microphone that's plugged into an underwater speaker, so the notes I play are being broadcast out into the soundworld of the whales.
Wear ear plugs designed for underwater use, so you don't lose too much heat through your ears.
And while a plug at either end of an underwater tube would protect against a tunnel breach, Hurricane Sandy showed that flooding can occur in many other ways — through ventilation grates and station entrances, for example.
The underwater stitch welding performed with a S355 steel plug exhibited visible bonding defects at the weld interface, while the weld with LF2 as the plug material yielded a qualified joint without cracks or discontinuities, provided the plug and hole geometries were well-designed.
I wish there were some sort of underwater speaker system for bathtubs that I could plug my iPod into so I could enjoy the sweet, sweet playlist I made while relaxing in the tub.
