The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, completed a months-long survey around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the coast of California, surveying more than 45,000 square kilometers of previously unknown ocean floor to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas with uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs).

Former Alpena News publisher Bill Speer recalls the establishment of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the discovery of the Ironton.

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, has completed a months-long survey around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the coast of California. The Saildrone surveyed more than 45,000 square kilometers of the previously unknown ocean floor to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas with uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs).

The Saildrone SD 1200 uncrewed surface vessel has successfully surveyed more than 45,000 square kilometers of previously unmapped ocean floor around the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and a region off the Californian coast.

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, surveyed more than 45,000 km2 of previously unknown ocean floor around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the California coast to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas.

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, has completed a months-long survey around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the coast of California as part of a multi-agency public-private partnership funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas with uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs).

Researchers have recently explored uncharted territory off the coast of Alaska and California using Saildrone Surveyor, an uncrewed surface vehicle, that spent 52 days scanning 10,000 square miles of the Aleutian Islands alone. 

CCOM researchers were on hand with the BEN ASV to assist a world-renowned team that found the pristine wreck of the Ironton at the bottom of Lake Huron.

CCOM researchers were on hand with the BEN ASV to assist a world-renowned team that found the pristine wreck of the Ironton at the bottom of Lake Huron.

CCOM researchers were on hand with the BEN ASV to assist a world-renowned team that found the pristine wreck of the Ironton at the bottom of Lake Huron.

CCOM researchers were on hand with the BEN ASV to assist a world-renowned team that found the pristine wreck of the Ironton at the bottom of Lake Huron.