| July
2004
(July 1, 2004 – Pocasset,
MA) Hydroid Inc. announced today that they have
recently received an order from the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (WHOI) for a REMUS Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle (AUV) system in a custom configuration to meet
their unique mission requirements.
The standard REMUS system will be
equipped with a Garmin GPS and a SeaBird SBE-49 CTD
instrument. Both are standard REMUS options that Hydroid
has delivered to other customers.
Commenting on the recent order Dr.
Glen Gawarkiewicz, an Associate Scientist at WHOI stated,
“We are very excited about obtaining this custom
REMUS vehicle for the Physical Oceanography Department
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The vehicle
will be ideal for studying shelf / slope exchange processes,
mixed layer dynamics, and continental shelf processes.”
Dr. Gawarkiewicz thanked the Office
of Naval Research (ONR) for supporting his research
and stated that the REMUS would be used in a number
of ONR programs for inter-disciplinary work involving
physical oceanography, acoustics, and optics. WHOI is
also planning on using the REMUS to provide students
with the opportunity to conduct field work utilizing
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles at an early stage in
their graduate programs.
The REMUS technology was developed
at the Institution by the Oceanographic Systems laboratory,
which continues to develop new AUV and other technologies.
Hydroid Inc. holds the exclusive license from the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution for the manufacture and
further development of the REMUS Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle (AUV) technology.
For further information
contact Kevin McCarthy, Vice President of Marketing
at Hydroid at Tel 508-563-6565, e-mail kmccarthy@hydroidinc.com.
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