On 1/10/2010 9:40 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

Rutgers has some neat underwater devices. I especially like this one, which
is especially clever:

http://rucool.marine.rutgers.edu/ind...r-Gliders.html

It completed a trans-Atlantic crossing last month, operating autonomously.
That's some fuel efficiency:

As concerns the the AUV, Rutgers bought it from Webb Research (you can
have one too). No development there.

Here is an article with a little bit of technical information:

http://m.discovermagazine.com/1996/a...sanddivingr734

Kevin Gallimore