One of the highlights
of our last trip was a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
We wanted the students to learn about and experience how deep sea research
works. The MBARI staff gave us a tour of the facility, their library of
animal specimens (much of which include newly discovered species), a large pool
for testing new robotic submersibles, and the RV, which is the research vessel
that houses and deploys their newest ROV, the Tiburon. Students had the
opportunity to sit in the control room and gather a perspective usually reserved
for the ROV pilots and engineers.
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