The Challenge

Tasks:

Maneuvering Exercise

• Drive the ROV through a series of hoops
• Hoop diameter: 58 cm
• Emulates having to drive an ROV through tight spaces in the ocean
• Time limit: maximum 3 minutes
• Priority: High, because we can't do anything if we can’t drive
• We’ll tackle it using motors/pumps to move the ROV

Plugging Oil Spills

• Cap the small plastic container which represents an oil spill. Oil spills are devastating to the environment and often ROVs can be used to plug leaking pipes
• Time Limit: 3 minutes
  
  
  
• Cap weighs >210 G
• Middling priority task
• Want to go about it using a hook strong enough to pick cap up

Schwroctopus

• Retrieve the Schworoctopuses for reaserch
• The Schworoctopus is a small marine animal that lives in the benthic environment
• 58.13 g
• Priority: Middling
• Time Limit: 4 minutes
• Want to go about it using a hook strong enough to retrieve the Schwroctopus

Coral

• The objective of this challenge is to relocate the endangered coral species to another designated area
• 40.13 g
• We have a maximum of four minutes to complete the challenge
• For every specimen successful moved, one point given to the team
• Priority: Lower
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  Want to go about it using a hook strong enough to retrieve the Coral