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1. Eyes in the Ocean
The Rapid Assessment TowFish
(RATFish)
Marine Applied Research and Exploration
www.maregroup.org
2. SOE has a visionary set of goals:
• Balance community design with carrying
capacity of natural resources
• Drive sustainable change
3. we don’t understand the oceans enough
to quantify sustainable change
Mission Control- we have a problem
4. Sustainability—What does it mean?
• Only 3% of our oceans are explored
• Political and emotional debate
• Sustainability remains a concept not an
attainable result
• Understanding marine ecosystems is a pre-
requisite to sustainable change.
6. Rapid Assessment TowFish
• Mid-water or bottom surveys
• 20 – 100 meters (the depth zone for the vast
majority of coastal habitats)
• State of the art visual survey capability
• Operable from a small boat (~25 foot)
• Packs down into 3 x 100 lb suitcases
• Quick deployment
• Weather windows
11. Timeline
Year 1:
– build and test prototype against proven ROV
Year 2:
– 60 contract days at sea
– Begin vetting qualified manufacturers
– Begin marketing to resource managers & scientists
Year 3:
– 80 contract days at sea
– Manufacturer begins production of RATFish
12. Who is MARE?
• 501(c)3 non-profit
• Mission: To provide and deploy technology
needed to see and understand underwater
coastal habitats
• Founded in 2003
• Co-led 17 expeditions
– Marine Protected Area assessments and surveys
– Lost fishing gear recovery missions
– Offshore energy site characterizations and biological
assessments
• Co-convened an international tech conference
13. MARE personnel :
• 75 years of experience design, manufacture and
operations
• Co-founders have built 400+ ROVs and 5 manned
submersibles
• David Jeffrey, former VP of Engineering
• Dirk Rosen, former CEO Deep Ocean Engineering
• 2 Directors have served in top management of
several Fortune 500 corporations
• Marine biologists and GIS personnel on staff
14. What’s needed: $150,000
• Conceptual design completed
• $50k loan from California Fisheries Fund
• $100,000 needed
15. SOE Goals:
• Balance community design with carrying
capacity of natural resources
• Drive sustainable change
These goals are critical.
16. Oceans are in deep trouble
• “Crisis”
– Pew Ocean Commission report
• “Putting our future at risk”
– U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
• 29% collapse already
• Global fisheries collapse by 2050?
17. The future of coastal communities
depends on healthy oceans
• Coastal tourism
• Fishing industry
• Sustainable offshore energy
production
• 20% of world’s protein
18. The RATFish enables
sustainable change
• Economical “eyes” into the ocean
• Management decisions based on sound data
• Better managed coastlines will:
– improve tourism opportunities
– allow for sustainable ocean energy development where practical
– maintain and ultimately increase the supply of seafood protein
– generate and keep jobs
According to a Pew Oceans Commission Report, our oceans are “in crisis.” The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy asserts that our failure to properly manage our oceans is “putting our future at risk.”
I’m shocked at how little we know about fish-habitat associations. Back to goals- what is carrying capacity, what is sustainable change- we don’t know
Seeing and gathering visual data beyond conventional diver depths—about 20 meters--requires costly technology such asrobots and submarines.
A cost-effective underwater vehicle that will get our eyes in the water like never before.Describe vehicle—towed from boat but flies like an airplane using lifting control surfaces on the wings and tailUses the same smart technologies used on aircraft to enable it to fly close to the bottom—to get good video and picsGeoref video and water quality, archivableHD video and digital still cameras with an archiving system that records all this visual data in real time with reference to GPS position, depth, altitude, time and date. Further, the RATfish design will accommodate new visual data collection technologies as they are developed and/orupgraded—meaning that the vehicle itself will not become outdated anytime soon.
Right now the way we see below diver depth is with subs, ROVsWe spend ¼ year offshore flying ROVs right now
The need for the RATFish is growing.Already 1,600 marine protected sites in U.S. waters alone—and growing. Their performance needs to be monitored.EIRs for offshore wave and wind, telecom and pipleline
understands science, engineering and operational needin March 2011 defining the sweet spot of deepwater visual technologies
Dirk CEO of leader or ROVs; David Sr. EE, relations with National network of scientific partners
Quotations on “in crisis” because these are the words of the Pew Ocean Commission report (2003).The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy asserts that our failure to properly manage our oceans is “putting our future at risk.” (2004)Scientists estimate that 29% of currently fished species have already collapsed. Some have even predicted the global collapse of all fisheries by2050.
