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Fast, Wireless Underwater Video
March 4, 2010 | WHOI

A new technology will change the way we explore the oceans. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has developed wireless video communication underwater at a speed close to real time. This will be very useful with ROVs and AUVs (remotely operated, and autonomous underwater, vehicles).


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