Tuesday,
June 10, 2003
by Sarah
Thain
Today we completed our second pool practice.
With her eight thrusters, the Nina Harper is a powerful
and responsive ROV to fly. She is very fun to pilot, with lots
of thrust and can turn on a dime. My favorite part is getting
close to a C-probe. I line up the probe in the monitor; turn
on the Sucker and presto! The C-probe is sucked in!
The biggest piloting challenge is descending
down the elevator shafts. This takes practice since we fly “blind”
down the shafts. The first couple of times I descended too fast
and got hung up in the frame. Easy does it! As pilot, I rely
on Beckie-Anne to manage the tether and give navigation instructions.
Our plan at the competition is to fly
down to the bottom deck and pick up 10 C-probes. Then we will
come up to the surface and unload. After, we will fly into the
top deck and retrieve the next 10 C-probes. In our practice
sessions we can pick up eight probes in five minutes. Our goal
is to pick up 10 C-probes in eight minutes.
Introduction
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April
22, 2003 |
| November
25, 2002 |
April
28, 2003 |
| November
28, 2002 |
May
2, 2003 |
| December
5, 2002 |
May
12, 2003 |
| December
19, 2002 |
May
19, 2003 |
| January
23, 2002 |
May
26, 2003 |
| January
30, 2003 |
June
3, 2003 |
| February
13, 2003 |
June
10, 2003 |
| February
28, 2003 |
June
19, 2003 |
| March
7, 2003 |
June
20, 2003 |
| March
14, 2003 |
June
21, 2003 |
| March
20, 2003 |
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| Nina Harper flying through 60 cm x 60 cm Titanic
mock-up |
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