Vertigo3 Underwater glider

The Vertigo3 Channel

Vertigo3 is a fast / agile underwater 'glider' that captures 500,000 5MP images per day as it autopilots itself over the seabed, avoiding obstacles and streaming video and artificial intelligence 'facial recognition' live to the boat-based operator.  The glider operates to more than 7 kts and to 40m depth, traversing up/down or left/right with ease.

Vertigo3 is in advanced sea trials, and in the second half of 2020 will transition to a philanthropy-backed open-source project.

Developmental work represents a collaborative project of Babel-sbf and CSIRO, with an increasing number of research collaborations in various marine science applications.

The project is largely self-funded, and is now looking for philanthropic backing to create step-change in the way we empower citizens and scientists to collect, analyse, report and archive high quality seabed data.