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PHILIP BECKER in an accessible manner.

SHIPWRECK “The initial results are compelling. The Voy- is camera is exceptional; this is exactly what it’s designed to do and it performed extremely well. I can’t wait to share that with the public,” said Fahy.

The team was also struck by the quality of pres- ervation of some of the shipwrecks. “We knew these shipwrecks were going to be extremely well preserved because of conditions in the lake,” explained Pettus. “But when we would approach a shipwreck with Rhody, it looked like it was just delicately set down on the lakebed.” “If you’re familiar with sailing schooners at all, on the front of the vessel on the bow, there’s something called a dolphin striker. It protrudes from the bow, and there’s a lot of rigging that’s necessary to hold that in place,” she said. “And we saw one of those that was completely intact. All the rigging was still there. Our chief scientist was

MARINE like a kid in a candy store when he got to see that.”

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The Rhod(y) Ahead “We’ve got huge plans for little Rhody,” laughed

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Fahy. Upcoming projects include cold-water cor-

Technology TV’s full video interview here: al studies in the Gulf of Maine and participation in the documentation of the intentional sinking of the S.S. United States off the Florida coast to create an arti