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Editorial

AUVs are Out of this World

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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I Jupiter’s moon Europa is a fairly amazing proposition. This month Kira Coley, in

PUBLISHER her traditional excellence, delivers insight and images from inside the Europa-Explorer

John C. O’Malley project as engineers seek to solve one of the greatest challenges ever. The mission, if it [email protected] ever comes to fruition, is a more than a generation away to start. But if you start drilling down on the details regarding the problems that must be thought, re-thought and solved

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Gregory R. Trauthwein with triple redundancy, it is fairly mind-boggling: [email protected] • landing the space capsule on Europa; • drilling a hole in an ice cap estimated to have a thickness between 2 to 9 miles;

Web Editor • deploying an AUV to explore an ocean with an estimated depth of 62 miles!

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The beauty of this project, whether it happens or not, is that the high level of inten-

Contributing Writers sive studies should have a measurable, positive impact on AUV design, construction and

Kira Coley, United Kingdom performance.

Capt. Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.)

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil

Kira’s story, which starts on page 22, is just the tip of the iceberg in regards to subsea

William Stoichevski, Norway vehicle coverage in this edition. Starting on page 33 Peter King writes about the ‘Past

Production Manager milestones and promising future’ of AUVs Under Ice. King is a coordinator of the Austra-

Irina Vasilets [email protected] lian Maritime College’s AUV Facility, and he takes an insightful look at the rich history and rapid developments underway today. The ice theme is continued with Andrew Safer’s

Production & Graphic Design one-on-one with Dr. Ian Jordaan. I leave it to you to turn to page 38 to get the back-

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] ground on Dr. Jordaan’s substantial ‘ice’ experience, but suf? ce it to say his impressive background and af? liation with Memorial University lend substance to his expertise on the

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Manager, Marketing matter. Our ? nal vehicle focus is by Rhonda Moniz, who takes a look inside the boom-

Mark O’Malley ing ROV market. This is Part 1 of a two-part series starting on page 46, and this month we [email protected] look at developments among manufacturers of observational and inspection class ROVs.

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