Nantucket Sound Testing, Day 4

Today some grad students from CSAIL came out to try running some of their planning code on Odyssey.


It was a calm day, so -- combined with the fact that we are getting better at the deployment process -- everything went very smoothly.


One of the students went for a swim, so Justin gave her a tow on the vehicle.


We weren't the only ones towing thrill-seekers around the cove...


We did a lot of dive missions to test out the camera system. The vehicle makes a splash on the surface, then pops up a few minutes later (and our confidence in this process has grown considerably since the beginning of the week). Unfortunately, it looks we will have to focus the camera manually since every picture between 1.5 and 5.5 meters altitude comes out blurry.


This time, Mike Ryan picked up a recovery pole from the WHOI facility, which makes it much easier to clip the crane hook onto the lifting bail. My butt didn't get wet this time, and I was nowhere near falling off the dive ladder.


The rest of recovery is a snap.