Iver Meets Diver

Today Jane, Amy, Zoe, and I went to Elmo's Bay to do another deployment. We were wanting to check that Vernon was still diving ok, as well at try to get good data of the shipwreck there. We did one pass over the shipwreck, 5m above the bottom. All went well, but the video data we collected was very murky, due to a lot of divers around the wreck kicking up sediment. We then ran a second mission going at 3m from the bottom. After the second dive Vernon didn't come back up for about 15 minutes, and we were concerned since each line was only supposed to take one minute. Zoe had gone and talked to some divers to see if they could spot the AUV and bring it up for us, but just as she did we saw Vernon emerge on the surface. Much thanks to the diver who helped release our robot after it got caught in the shipwreck! You can see on the GoPro footage above the AUV getting stuck and then being released by a diver.

Jane at the Deployment in Elmo's Bay

After coming back from deployment, I have been working on some more realistic graphical representations to go with our underwater meshes and make them actually look underwater. Today I finished making my first skydome, to make the beaufighter wreck look like it was underwater.

Skydome around the Beaufighter

Though we got stuck in the shipwreck on our second mission, we got a lot of great GoPro footage since we were so close. So I have also been working on collecting the frames from the video data, and seeing what 3D meshes I can get from them.