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Oceanology International 2020, held this year as a virtual event from 1st to 4th December on the custom-built, AI-driven Oi Connect events and meetings platform, completed its inaugural session to acclaim from the ocean science and technology communities.
Ralph Rayner, President of the Society for Underwater Technology, said, “2020 has presented its challenges to the world and the ocean science and technology community. However, I was delighted with how Oi Connect managed to bring so many of the community together. The Oi Connect platform saw many hundreds of meetings and conference hours delivered. Good business has been conducted and new relationships formed. In lieu of a face-to-face event, Oi Connect really delivered for the ocean science and technology community.”
and we do have more breaking news this morning. and it is good news. the 11th boy just rescued from the flooded cave in thailand. three rescues so far today. and efforts continue to save the remaining boy and the soccer coach still inside that cave. here now to discuss cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and tim taylor, expert in underwater technology. we ve seen three boys pulled out today, four each of the previous days. they seem to have this system in place. i just think it has run incredibly smoothly so far. still, though, two to go. yes. and getting this as a routine has a little bit of danger in itself because there s always something that can come out of left field that you haven t run in the last four times or three times. so you have to be really vigilant for something happening, something out of the blue that hasn t happened
sunken ferry including latest underwater technology. one tool . reporter: if you wonder how robots might help search for passengers, watch this. you re looking at a remotely operated vehicle snaking its way around a sunken shrimp boat off the coast of gloucester, massachusetts. when it comes to ship wrecks, this machine is a workhorse. it maneuvers its way through tiny openings where human divers to fit or it s too dangerous for them to go. to go forward you ll use forward. it s very intuitive. very user friendly. to back it up, you ll back up this way. reporter: it s like a video
length on this show about whether or not the bluefin-21 is the right equipment. can we expect searchers to maybe bring in other forms of underwater technology, technology that can go deeper than the bluefin, do you think? yeah. i think it s important to be able to take the full depth of the entire area that you re searching and that could be down to beyond 5,000 meters. but more importantly, it s about range. so any time you re talking about side scan sonar, there s a trade off between range and distance and resolution. and so the bluefin gives high resolution images but it has a relatively limited range per day. deep towed sonar will still give you the image that you need but can scan between 6 and 12 times the distance that the bluefin can. miles, let s talk about the families for one second. they have been very vocal about
the crews in the skies and the seas and testing the limits of the technology. joining me now here is technology analyst brett larson. and brett, there is a whole host of countries and host of assets in the ocean, and the air and indeed in space with the satellites, but the malaysians are asking for specific thengs from the u.s., and particularly advanced technology and what are they asking for and why? well, one of the things they are asking for from us is a hydrophone which is a microphone which is specifically designed to hear in water and you can t just put a microphone in the water and drop something in there in a waterproof housing, becau because it is not going to hear as well as the hydrophone microphone which is designed to work in the high pressure of the water. and to listen for the ping? yes. and what kind of distance underwater? well, we have heard from 5 to 10 miles on that. but that means that they have to be near it, and take into account if it is a part of the