Friday, December 11, 2009

Unmanned Research Sub Crosses Atlantic

From CNN:

Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A U.S.-built, unmanned mini-submarine on an ocean research mission has successfully crossed the North Atlantic by gliding on underwater currents, U.S. officials said Wednesday in Spain, where they came to retrieve it.

The ocean crossing is thought to be a first for the robotic device that looks like a small torpedo with wings, and was powered only by batteries that allowed it to change buoyancy so it could catch ocean currents.

A similar effort in 2008 failed and the device was never recovered.

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