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With regards to the GEBCO-NF Alumni team’s USV Maxlimer, some initial investigative work on a potential Saving Coral can you tell us what impresses you most about the concept Reefs XPRIZE, as well as a Natural Disaster Prediction and technology? XPRIZE. Corals are a major ocean ecosystem and due to a

This is a surface vehicle that can be controlled autonomously variety of stressors, they have seen a severe decline over the from shore and will carry the sub-surface component of the last few years. Can we stop or reverse this decline? Natural entry to the offshore competition area for deployment and Disasters such as earthquakes (and stemming from that, tsuna- recovery at sea. This is a wonderfully robust and versatile mis) or tropical cyclones result in the loss of tens of thousands technology that will be able to handle a range of sea-states. of lives (extreme events can result in losses of hundreds of

Although we have only seen it operate with one AUV, the ul- thousands of lives) and billions of dollars in economic loss timate goal is that it can be adapted to deploy and recover a annually. Can we prevent such losses? number of different styles of sub-surface technologies.

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