URI engineering professor produces smallest deep-sea system in the world that can provide a livestream video feed
A sample of fiber optic fishing line with the inner fiber optic core exposed, next to a United States dime for scale. The outer diameter of the fishing line is less than one millimeter. Photo courtesy of Brennan Phillips.
KINGSTON, R.I. – May 5, 2021 – The answers to many of life’s mysteries have been discovered far below the surface of the seas. However, getting to those depths has not been easy.
Thanks to a new fiber optic reel system invented by Brennan Phillips, an assistant professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, deep-sea exploration is about to get much more affordable and accessible.