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Unmanned systems that we’re deploying extend the ability of us to do our sensing at sea. It

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Gregory R. Trauthwein [email protected] southern ocean and doing CTE pro? les, and the kind of hydrography that the big ships do routinely, you just can’t do it (with fully autonomous systems alone); you need too much

Contributing Writers power. Autonomy extends the utility of the service vessels. It makes us more ef? cient and

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Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen gives us persistence.”

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William Stoichevski, Oslo 2021 should prove a pivotal year for the evolution of all ocean vehicles, surface and

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Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] being called the Armada ? eet will be ready for commercial operations in the North Sea in summer 2021. Finally, the defense market remains a primary driver for all matters subsea

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