Wednesday, May 22, 2013

New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks

New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks
These are just the kinds of scenarios that an AUV based monitoring program is ideally well suited for and I'm not just speaking as an interested AUV party someone needs to do this.

starNOAA News Releases
May 20, 2013 11:00 AM

New NOAA report examines national oil pollution threat from shipwrecks

NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard today a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation's coastal marine resources.
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Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

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