Autonomous underwater vehicles

untethered submersible manned or unmenned

remotely operated underwater vehicle

autonomus underwater vehicle

thumb|Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer The Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer (DEPTHX) is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed and built by Stone Aerospace, an aerospace engineering firm based in Austin, Texas. It was designed to autonomously explore and map underwater sinkholes in northern Mexico, as well as collect water and wall core samples. This could be achieved via an autonomous form of navigation known as A-Navigation. The DEPTHX vehicle was the first of three vehicles to be built by Stone Aerospace which were funded by NASA with the goal of developing technology that can explore the oc

autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) used for scientific research carried on the RRS Sir David Attenborough