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Gregory R. Trauthwein

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John C. O’Malley of movie watchers – with the ubiquitous movie Jaws and Captain Quint’s (actor Robert [email protected]

Shaw’s) three and a half minute speech on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis; a scene- stealing speech which gives breadth and depth to the character’s obsession with ? nding

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Gregory R. Trauthwein and killing the ornery 25-ft. great white shark. But my interest in the story exceeds Holly- [email protected] wood, as it neatly ties together many of the themes we discuss in our pages regularly: col-

Managing Editor laboration, technology and history. The most recent hunt for USS Indianapolis was led by

Eric Haun

Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen and his Seattle-based company Vulcan Inc., a journey [email protected] on board RV Petrel that deployed a full arsenal of the latest vehicle, sensor and software

Contributing Writers technology in the quest to ? nd a ship that sank more than 70 years ago and came to rest in

Kira Coley, United Kingdom waters more than 5,000 meters deep. The full story starts on page 20, and on pages 24 and

Capt. Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.)

Tom Mulligan, Ireland 25 you will ? nd a list of the technology deployed to ? nally explore this historic wreck.

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil

The story of technology and autonomy continues on page 26 with the feature: Un-

William Stoichevski, Norway manned Forces: Building a Multi-Domain Autonomous Fleet. Autonomy is obviously a re-

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Irina Vasilets curring theme in our pages, and here we examine the tools and performance multi-agency, [email protected] multi-asset exercise to push autonomy to its limits.

Looking at subsea technology from a different angle this month is Kira Coley, who

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Nicole Ventimiglia examines in her feature starting on page 34 the promise and the peril of subsea mining. As [email protected] we increasingly build the tools and technique to operate under the waves more ef? ciently

Corporate Staff and effectively, in tandem there is increasing industrial activity on the world’s sea? oors. In

Manager, Marketing this edition Coley takes a look inside the ABYSSLINE project, which is undertaking ben-

Mark O’Malley [email protected] thic biological baseline studies to evaluate subsea structure and biodiversity, and is intent

Accounting on playing a role in determining the environmental cost of subsea mining.

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