NOC's New AUV Completes First Trials

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Following a brief test deployment in Falmouth Bay, Autosub6000, the new 5.5m long, 2,800kg deepwater Autonomous Underwater Vehicle developed by National Oceanography Centre engineers at Southampton, has successfully completed its first sea trials in the North Atlantic from aboard the UK' s largest general purpose oceanographic research vessel, RRS Discovery.

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