ROV History
This is the name of the first ROV made in 1953 by the French diver/photographer Dimitri Rebikoff.
What is The Poodle?
While ugly on the surface, this fish has a seemingly normal appearance when found at its normal depth an habitat.
What is the Blobfish?
This is a bright orange species of fish that likes to hide around the kelp forests around the island.
What is a Garibaldi?
This tool measures temperature and indicates trends in ocean weather, climate and the ideal environment for certain species.
What is a thermometer?
On an ROV, these part allow it to move up, down, and laterally through the water.
What are the thrusters?
This is the number of versions of the ROV, nicknamed CURV, that was created by the US Navy in the 1960s.
What is five?
ROVs were used to find this famous wreck after the ship collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Titanic?
This species is known for its characteristic blue eyes and white spot near the base of its dorsal fin.
What is the Opaleye?
These devices are important for analyzing how different salinity levels affect marine species and ocean currents.
What are a hydrometer and refractometer?
This part connects to the ROV in order to carry signals for operation, communication, and information from the ROV to a pilot crew.
What is the umbilical cable?
These practice artilleries were recovered by Cutlet in the 1970s and 1980s by the British Royal Navy.
What are practice torpedoes and mines?
While tiny on land, this invertebrate can grow to great sizes in deeper parts of the ocean.
What is the Giant Isopod?
This species has black spots on its back fin as an adult, but a blue head and yellow tail as a juvenile.
What is the Blacksmith?
While simple in design, this black and white tool is essential for analyzing the presence of particulates in water that can affect visibility.
What is a Secchi Disk?
This part is used to manage the umbilical/tether since it will otherwise tangle without supervision.
What is the Tether Management System?
These companies began to use ROVs in the 1980s for offshore development at deeper depths that could not be reached by divers.
What are oil and gas companies?
This organism can be found dining on the bones of whale falls and other decomposing animals after they sink to the bottom of the ocean.
What is the orange-collared bone eating worm?
The males of this species have a black bard behind their pectoral fin that is described as having "hairy armpits."
What is the Rock Wrasse?
This device can be used to understand what kind of marine plants and animals can live in certain environments by measuring light penetration in the water column.
What is a photometer?
Despite its many names, this is a universal part of an ROV that is intended for carrying additional tools, probes, samples, or other necessary gear.
What is the tool sled/payload net?
The Poodle was an adaptation of this tool used by divers to move through the water at greater speeds.
What is a dive scooter?
This jellyfish shares part of its name with a tool that is used to detangle unkempt hair and can be found at deep, dark depths with a red tinge.
What is the bloodbelly comb jelly?
As juveniles, this species is known for its white racing stripe down its body and three black spots on its fins.
What is the Sheephead?
This tool tells us how acidic or basic a water sample is based on the concentration of hydrogen ions in the solution.
What is a pH meter?
For this part's design, form equals function.
What is the chassis?