CAT 2.16 - Disaster Strikes

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About a week into the survey, we suffered a severe setback. During a night recovery, Ginger slipped under the ships stern and the ships screw made contact with the AUVs tail section. After taking a good look at the damage, the AUV team determined the thruster housing was beyond repair and that a new one would need to be acquired. It would set us back several days, if not weeks. While we worked through solutions, the team leads went over recovery scenarios in order to prevent having the same type of incident in the future. We only had one AUV left, and we had to keep her moving through the search boxes as best we could.

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• Amelia
• Earhart
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• Electra
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