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Our sea trials over the summer prepared us well for the Shell Outside of your own entry, are there any other teams that

Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Technology Readiness Tests and you feel have developed something special?

allowed us to successfully complete all 11 of the criteria de- One of the goals of XPRIZE is to stimulate and innovate ? ned by XPRIZE. We successfully operated an uncrewed (un- technology. From what I’ve seen in other team’s solutions, manned) dual USV/AUV operation with 11 km2 of data col- that goal has been achieved. Ocean Mapping has a long way lected and then published in a GIS online environment. to go and is open to exciting new innovations – and any work that brings this into focus is both important and essential.

We found out that the GEBCO-NF Alumni team was one of nine Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE ? nalists in March. Why As you move towards the ? nal stages of the competition, has USV Maxlimer done so well in the competition? are there any areas of the design or operation of USV Max-

I think the USV Maxlimer is only one part of our success. limer that you are working on or looking to improve?

Each component of our solution is as important as any other Hushcraft, the designer and builder of the SEA-KIT USV and all had some innovation built in – and it is this cohesive Maxlimer continues to design and develop the vessel to be the approach to producing information from the bathymetric data best possible and most versatile surface vessel available as a collected that allowed our team to be as successful as we have solution to a multitude of maritime tasks. been so far. Each piece is an important part of the puzzle – with the ? nal products, whether images of the sea-? oor or And ? nally, do you feel the concepts, innovations and bathymetric charts showing the morphology and character of technologies developed for USV Maxlimer could have wider the sea? oor, being the main objective of the team’s entry. USV implications and applications other than ocean mapping?

Maxlimer has been successful as she offers the means to de- We are con? dent that there are a wide range of applications ploy, retrieve and manage AUV operations ? exibly, in either that USV Maxlimer will be useful for.

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