Brit robo-sub dives to 3.5 miles on seabed volcano quest British oceanography boffins are celebrating successful trials of their latest robot submarine, which has now autonomously navigated itself about at a depth of three-and-a-half miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic. The Autosub 6000 in action. Credit: NOC The British battery-powered bottom probe at work. The Reg has …
3.5 miles is one league, near enough.
By your estimate, a league would be 31 yards. I doubt Good King Wenceslas would have sympathised with that.
Okay okay, you're talking about horizontal range. I always thought Jules Verne's measurement was vertical, but now I think about it, that's implausible.
This stuff is expensive....so the research funding proposal looked something like
"....this research will result in a better understanding of global warming and global climate change...and the best place to do this is on our own private ship in the Carribean for 6 months with a crew of sex starved, drink fuelled students..."
Time to get out of IT I think...
...that remdinds me...shouldn't the Paris icon be used when we're talking about battery powered probes or are the El Reg commentards a bit lacking this morning...
It has nothing to do with the Beatles. You make subs yellow because they are easier to find when they break down. Unless, of course, it's a military sub, in which case you make it as difficult to spot as possible.
There is bugger-all point painting them blue or coral coloured. That's like all those dip-shits who go out walking in the hills wearing green and brown, have an accident, and then wonder why nobody can find them. It's because you went out wearing camouflage you morons!
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