a directory of ways to participate in sea exploration
Help develop autonomous vehicles to explore the ocean floor. The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a $7 million global competition to advance deep-sea technologies for autonomous, fast, and high-resolution ocean exploration. Teams will explore an area of the sea floor producing maps and images. Register by June 30th, 2016.
An international competition for elementary through college level students to design and build underwater remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs) to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. This year’s competition theme highlights the role that ROVs play in exploring and documenting shipwrecks...
OpenROV is an underwater robot that you can build yourself to explore underwater caves, oceans and lakes up to 25m in depth, with an eventual goal of up to 100m. OpenROV can be used for an array of exploration and research. From hunting for meteorites on the seafloor to monitoring plastic pollution in the ocean, the larger...