A weekend with the whole team!

Adding on to what Erik said...the Cal Poly and Harvey Mudd groups met up with Timmy Gambin (from University of Malta) for the first time this weekend. Here's some things we did today:

First, Jeff (an ICEX returner) showed the team how to put the ROV together. 

Then, we got the ROV in the water! The Harvey Mudd students used their PS3 controller to drive the ROV around the pool.

Cal Poly and Harvey Mudd students collaborate to stream temperature and pressure data from the ROV while it was in the water.

We troubleshooted some problems with the ROV, since this was our first time using it all together this year. We took apart the screen on the control box and found a loose cable in the monitor connection, so we reconnected the cable and then had a fully functional control box!

Each person in the group got to practice driving the ROV, taking sonar scans, and recording the direction of the ROV at each scan so that we could build a map later.

And here is the ICEX 2013 Team photo!

After spending the afternoon at the pool, we all went back to Cal Poly and Timmy Gambin taught us about Remote Sensing Technologies and the Management of Underwater Cultural

and Natural Heritage, which relates to the work he does in Malta.

Now, all of the students are still together and working hard :) The day went well, and we're meeting up again tomorrow morning for more!