underwater camera boat finder

[properchopper]

Just bumped into this. Battery powered, 60' of cable. Not that expensive compared to a nice FE on the bottom.

Yeah, I know murky water's a prob, but...

(sorry, couldn't directly link; pix are the best I could wrangle)


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[Diegoboy]

link <====[--0

for those interested

[m4a1usr]

Thanks for the linky! I got to get me one of them. Wish it was a swimmer, but that got me to thinking. Why not make it a swimmer? Cant be all that hard.

John

[sundog]

Wow. In a busy lake you might make your investment back right away. Tackle boxes, rods/reels, sunglasses, rc boats, wallets, anchors, etc. This is better than a metal detector - you can see if it's worth recovering! But it would take some work setting up a grid with gps, mapping it out and so on. Cool find!

[graill]

Going to be interesting to see who the first one to make it an ROV will be..... :)

[properchopper]

link <====[--0

for those interested

Thanks Danny, my "linking skills" are not so good ; figgered a picture would get the idea across.

[marko500]

I think it would be great if you could rig up a grappling hook to it. That way you could see what you are hooking and when you had it.

Mark

[properchopper]

I think it would be great if you could rig up a grappling hook to it. That way you could see what you are hooking and when you had it.

Mark

Our local race venue, Legg Lake, has had its share of boats down. As soon as that happens, people in the pits that witnessed it will line up a visual coordinate with the opposite shore and hold it 'till the rescue boat goes out with a drag bar and hook, both made of rebar. Attaching this goodie might help, but Legg is very murky and the bottom is like quicksand so the camera may or may not be of benefit. Joe V. (Questtek) may work on the underwater propulsion, Ill bet, as he does such things for other projects and he was interested in this piece when I showed it to him. More to come....

[marko500]

The only concern I would have with the propulsion system would be stirring up the silt on the bottom reducing visibility even more.

Mark

[obrien]

When our little club was first getting started, we would run behind a guys house on a small lake. Well a couple of times we had boats go down, and had to use one of these cameras to find the boats. Each time we found them, and someone would swim down and bring the boats back up. It takes a few minutes to find the boats, because it is kind of strange looking at the screen and making sure you know which way the camera is pointed.

We were using a mastercraft ski boat. For the sand on the bottom to get stirred up it would have to be fairly shallow water, which you would most likely be able to find the boat with out the camera.

[m4a1usr]

I'm way ahead of you Tony (but dont let that deter progress from your end :)=) I am going to engage our local ROV high school program we run every year and get some young minds engaged. And its a cheap investment to stimulate their 3D thinking in a underwater enviornment. Right now we have an obstacle course they have to run in a swimming pool. They use line of sight to engage the hurdles. With this system I can train them to remain focused from the under water perspective. Not standing pool side staring down with visual errors. It will be fun to see them correct for parallax and adjust!

John

[Doug Smock]

Phil Pace w/ Vac-U-Boat built a barge with a motorized reel that will raise and lower a camera and light. Pretty neat watching the video as he drove the barge around. I'll see if he has any pics of it.
D.

[properchopper]

The only concern I would have with the propulsion system would be stirring up the silt on the bottom reducing visibility even more.

Mark

Not if the propulsion system employs the super guassian flux density ion emission thrust vectoring remotly articulated hyper drive and the camera lens is a finely crafted bi-pentagonal hexaprism now under development at the ProperChopper Secret Research Facility located underground at the SoCal FE Home for the Terminally Bewildered

[RandyatBBY]

Not if the propulsion system employs the super guassian flux density ion emission thrust vectoring remotly articulated hyper drive and the camera lens is a finely crafted bi-pentagonal hexaprism now under development at the ProperChopper Secret Research Facility located underground at the SoCal FE Home for the Terminally Bewildered

You cracked me up!

[marko500]

Not if the propulsion system employs the super guassian flux density ion emission thrust vectoring remotly articulated hyper drive and the camera lens is a finely crafted bi-pentagonal hexaprism now under development at the ProperChopper Secret Research Facility located underground at the SoCal FE Home for the Terminally Bewildered

Sorry Tony I totally neglected to take into account that variable. Are you going to also employ a fanewton valve to regulate and redirect the flow of ions?

Mark