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Wasub from the Technical University of

Delft in the Netherlands. Placing second for overall performance was FA-U Boat from Florida Atlantic University, and third was SubLime, the high school team from

Spring Hill, FL.

The top Innovation Prize went to

Virginia Tech's Phantom 5. Finishing sec- ond and third were independent entrants

Don Burton's Sparky's Sub and Bruce

Plazyk's Faux Fish. Florida Atlantic

University also won the "Smooth

Operator" award, a prize given to the team with the most consistent performance, suc- cessful troubleshooting and ability to race the course.

Some of the hottest competition during the week was between Omer 5 and the new team from the Technical University of

Delft. The event ended with a first-time ever, two-boat side-by-side duel between the two, won by Wasub. The Dutch sub ran straight and true while the faster Omer 5 took a commanding three-boat-length news

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Omer 5 from the University of Quebec's

Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS) set a new two-person speed record of 7.061 knots. (Photo Credit: Mariby Johns for ISR)

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