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Of shore Energy & Icebergs ”What our lab is about is unmanned systems and using un- state, that sort of thing,” Riggs said. “It will also be equipped manned systems to solve problems for people,” said Riggs. with a sonar system and other instruments for underwater that “The unmanned systems we use are the autonomous under- will be able to measure the shape of the berg, at least to a water vehicles (AUVs) and more recently for us autonomous certain depth. We have other technology we are developing surface craft. The work we are doing here involves using in concert with that (the spar) that will allow us to see the a combination of both of these, using them to measure the whole iceberg. We are adapting a particular type of underwa- above water and underwater shapes of the icebergs and also ter autonomous vehicle to be able to circumnavigate an ice- to measure the current