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The Circle of Innovation Oceanographic (IOC) today at the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology (ARQUA) archaeological survey of a Roman shipwreck of the first century BC conducted in waters of Cartagena, thanks to the underwater vehicles UPCT.
The public presentation included information about the program of actions Oceanographic Innovation Circle on the Roman Republican era wreck inspected and technological equipment Underwater Vehicles Laboratory UPCT employees.
During the presentation it has been shown a video with images taken by drones and submarines it has been contextualized exploration with a visit to the permanent exhibition of Arqua, showing remains of Roman ships and amphorae as those contained in the wreck.
Oceanographic Innovation Circle, sponsored by the Directorate General for Research and Innovation and fundamental participation of the UMU and UPCT under the Campus Mare Nostrum, integrates Underwater Vehicles Laboratory and the School of Naval UPCT group Research in Ecology and Marine Ecosystems of the UMU, the Naval and Marine Technology Centre, the Oceanographic Centre of Murcia, IMIDA and the Fish and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, ARQUA, Salvage and businesses MTorres, Electrocanteras and Expal.
The co-director of Underwater Vehicle Laboratory UPCT, Antonio Guerrero, explained that Oceanographic Innovation Circle has set a goal for the coming years creating Murcia submarine technology, "innovative products useful for companies involved in the circle, "he has explained.
UMU professor Ángel Pérez Ruzafa, the research group Ecology and Management of Marine Ecosystems, detailed another objective of the Circle, the creation of a mobile oceanographic observatory.
Innovation Circles are part of the Research and Innovation Strategy for smart specialization of the Region of Murcia (RIS3Mur) and are conceived as environments where generators of knowledge, business, government and civil society working together.
UPCT underwater vehicles
Underwater Vehicles Laboratory (LVS) of the Polytechnic has four underwater vehicles.
A ROV (remotely operated vehicle, in English) that can go down to great depths and is managed and powered by an umbilical cable of optical fiber, which also transmits data and high resolution images in real time;
an underwater autonomous vehicle (AUV) with up to eight hours of battery life in recording a series of parameters thanks to its multiple sensors and part of the time and geolocation points where they were taken;
a mini ROV teleoperated that allows you to see in great detail shallow areas and a car loan from the Spanish Armada "control technology designed by us and in which we can change and add all kinds of instrumentation thanks to its high capacity" explains Antonio Guerrero.
The different vehicles offer the possibility of radar measurements, side-scan sonar, bathymetry, capturing ultrasound image and sound profiling probes and magnetometers used to distinguish the materials present on the seabed.
All these features have enormous potential to identify objects like wrecks, even if they are buried, so they have the possibility of incorporating an air hose to remove the sand.
They also have sensors altimetry and depth gauges to measure the distance to the surface and the sea floor, and transmission systems to measure the distance to the boat or checkpoint.
Source: UPCT
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