Well, it's 10:21 AM. Our first preliminary run starts at 11:00 AM. As of now, two teams have made it through the gate, and two teams haven't showed up. One team, I think the University of Florida, navigated to the acoustic pinger and surfaced. We also have another run tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM.…
It's almost 9PST and I'm standing here blogging pool (amazingly large dive tank?)-side. Our arrival time was pushed up one hour this morning to get teams here in time for some live coverage from a local San Diego TV station. ... Yeh, definitely got up at 5 AM. Mike and I walked into the command/al…
I've got a lot of audio but it's taking a long time to edit. Fingers crossed I'll have the first podcast up this afternoon. In the mean time, here's a few pictures from the first day of practice. shot of our setup Here's Seawolf being hoisted into the water for the first time. Behold the bea…
Well, I lied. Apparently I do have my camera cable. So, here's some pictures from earlier today. When the sun goes down, it gets pretty chilly here. Matt was freezing his butt off in the pool for a couple of hours, and now Jim is in the pool. NCSU University of Florida Montreal
Day one of the NCSU Underwater Robotics team's trip to San Diego for the International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition has come and gone. We arrived in San Diego around 10 AM after some miserable flight time. We waited around in the airport for about 2 hours for our luggage and a proper s…
