CAT 2.20 - Down for the Count?

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Sometimes with a little bit of luck, a little expertise, and a whole lot of elbow grease, what could be a major setback is reduced to a small blip in the schedule. Following a mission abort by Mary Ann, the team discovered a failure of the motor in her tail thruster. They took the thruster to the AUV lab and tore it down, did varied diagnostic tests, and, in the end, declared it unfixable. With Ginger already sitting on the sidelines waiting for her own tail assembly fix, Mary Ann was the expeditions only operating search vehicle, and she needed to get back in the water. Harbor Branch project manager and engineer, Lee Frey, refused give up. After endless hours of testing and troubleshooting, Lee had the motor working again. What we thought was going to be our second major disaster was narrowly averted.


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