The Naval Postgraduate School of U.S. and Seatrec, manufacturer of energy harvesting systems that generate electricity from ocean temperatures, have together developed an autonomous underwater drone, the Persistent Smart Acoustic Profiler (PSAP) Voyager, capable of collecting and transmitting oceanographic and acoustic data in real-time and nearly indefinitely.
The PSAP Voyager was deployed off the coast of Kona, Hawaii, in November 2024. It operates using ocean...