Underwater Atlantic circumnavigation on gliding and battery

AUV 'Silbo' flexes its mussels after 1,273 days at sea

Teledyne Marine has announced that its Slocum G2 Glider, manufactured by Teledyne Webb Research, has just completed an over 4-year journey that circumnavigated the Atlantic Ocean in four legs, a first for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

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