Squid Disco

[Music] Today we're here with the ocean gate submersible antipodes. I've been working with them, my class has been working with them to try to develop some instrumentation to go on the sub. One of the projects came through, Josh Ambrose one of my students developed a little, test, sort of a proof of concept for infrared transmission from a standard tv remote to instruments outside the sub through the clear window of the sub. so we're going to be test driving that today. Josh has got a little remote, We'll be inside the sub, he'll be pushing buttons and the infrared light will go through the window, we hope, and activate a little sensor that will detect that and it will flash back patterns of led's to tell us whether or not its receiving the appropriate commands. I'm with Ocean Gate Team. We're here down in Monterey to support education outreach programs. The Ocean Gate Foundation is sponsoring out trip down here to meet with students and get the science community and educators excited about the oceans. The mission for today is we're going to leave the dock and we're going to leave the dock and we're going to go out on a rig out there, a barge rig and go and dive that and that's about a 13 minute tow. Once we're done over there we'll come up and we'll tow back to this dock. Let's get out of here! So what I'm going to do first, is i'm going to dump the main balance tank. You're going to hear a clunk. Clunk, clunk. [Music] So how did your device work? How did it all go for you. It worked great. The sensor and everything functioned. It actually had a wider range of where we could point the remote than we expected and it was a blast, got to see a lot of fun stuff! [Music]