Gallery: Robotic Sub Installs Deep-Sea Webcam
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The first deep-sea webcam was successfully installed on the floor of California's Monterey Bay Wednesday, and Wired Science brought it to you live via Twitter and Flickr.
The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will allow marine biologists Erika Raymond and Edith Widder, pictured above, to unobtrusively observe organisms in the deep ocean. In this gallery, you can watch as the system is flawlessly installed in the bay, and within a week, you'll be able to use their camera to peer into the deep.
"That was an extremely rare experience, something that complex working the first time," Widder, a MacArthur "genius award" grantee and founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association. "Murphy took the day off."
The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will allow marine biologists Erika Raymond and Edith Widder, pictured above, to unobtrusively observe organisms in the deep ocean. In this gallery, you can watch as the system is flawlessly installed in the bay, and within a week, you'll be able to use their camera to peer into the deep.
"That was an extremely rare experience, something that complex working the first time," Widder, a MacArthur "genius award" grantee and founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association. "Murphy took the day off."
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