Students Design Deep-Sea Explorer to Search for Lake Ontario Shipwrecks

Rochester Institute of Technology Public Release, 19 May 2006 It's designed to explore the depths of large bodies of water -- and one recent weekend, that's exactly where it was found: searching the depths of the deep end of Judson Pool in Rochester Institute of Technology's Gordon Field House and Activities Center. A team of RIT engineering majors built the explorer, an underwater remote-operated vehicle, or ROV -- and it has been described as one of the most ambitious student projects ever at RIT. This spring and summer, the device will be used to explore century-old shipwrecks resting on the bottom of Lake Ontario and the Atlantic Ocean -- giving human explorers their first glimpses of some all-but-forgotten vessels lost to the seas. Read more