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80% of our ocean floors have never been studied. This robot sailboat is unlocking the most treacherous parts.
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Oceans cover 70% of Earth’s surface. But there’s still so much we don’t understand about oceans, from seafloor topography to what surface conditions are like in a certain part of the world at any given time.
One problem is size: It’s expensive, impractical, and fuel-intensive to have many manned ships roaming the oceans. That’s why Saildrone is building a fleet of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to constantly monitor the conditions of the world’s oceans.
Each Saildrone carries 20 scientific sensors that can measure things like water temperature changes, wildlife activity, CO2 concentration, and pollution. Saildrones can stay out at sea for months - or even years - without needing to refuel. And when they do require fuel or maintenance, the drones simply guide themselves back to port.
The long-term vision of Saildrone is to be able to measure every aspect of the oceans’ health - from pollution to fish populations - in real time.
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@stankfaust814 Год назад

As these drones proliferate in their mission, a nice design feature would be a first aid / sos button in case its track traversed someone in distress.

@janeblogs324 Год назад

The drones could film their last days on earth, would make great TV

@razzlekhan292 Год назад

Sure, and put some Oreos on there too! With a pint of milk!

@moroniafrifa614 Год назад

That’s a great suggestion 👌🏼

@jimj2683 Год назад

It would be fantastic to get some nice footage of some giant rogue waves. I would also like if it measured the pressures generated by those waves. It would be useful to build ships that could withstand the forces.

@nomore-constipation Год назад

...if I wasn't so paralyzed thinking I would die in the middle of the ocean i would absolutely love to explore it visually in person. There is a peace about being in the middle of nowhere and being able to do your own thing. Without anything else dragging you down

@Hoopaball Год назад

This technology is so cool. A solar powered computer, operating a sail boat, controlled remotely via satellite, through a station, by an operator who working might also be working remotely or from a ship. Weather agencies can cut down on balloon pollution, maritime search and rescue can preposition assets, marine navigation and communication can operate in relative situational awareness, with localized on tap data, and space communications and data service providers can also establish mesh networks with smaller on orbit satellite fleets. All with these boats acting as non-orbital, reusable, relay nodes, observation, communication, and rescue craft.

@wickedcabinboy Год назад

I can envision other uses for these drones. With camouflage coloring they'd be difficult to detect visually. They could be used to monitor the ocean for other purposes such as submarine travel or illicit fishing activity. They've already been involved in a couple of international incidents in the Persian Gulf.

@bohabdestructo7489 Год назад

So when are the maps going to be available? My guess is that we will never be able to get them unedited.

@renaldobeaton4632 Год назад

This technology can help to gather information on water based catastrophe like tsunami or hurrican. This information can be used in various ways. Another idea would be that is used for sensory purposes to locate ships or persons doing illigal stuff at sea.

@somerandomfella Год назад

Doesn't sonar disrupt whale communications? 🤔

@zinjanthropus322 Год назад

Is that why they beach themselves? Or is that a form of protest

@LordGryllwotth Год назад

They don't like the high powerfull ones that the navy uses.

@clintwolf5737 Год назад

I like it! These would also be great as life-saving devices for those out at sea - add an emergency button. Imagine someone who's boat went down or whatever. They see one of these and press that Emergency Button. Using the onboard GPS, this craft could communicate the person's location for rescue. Granted the craft would be moving before and after the button was pressed, but maybe the button sits alongside something that could be grabbed by the person to stay with the craft.

@jimj2683 Год назад

That is a great idea! I could imagine billions of these (in a smaller version) just floating around all the oceans, ready to save people.

@alexdaland Год назад

to be fair, it sort of works already without any added "emergency features", although that is an idea worth exploring. However, if you are stuck on a liferaft for xx days, and you get a hold of one of these.... Dont let go, you will figure out some way to communicate with the sensors/camera/equipment

@LoiteringReaper Год назад

These sail drones can be useful when interstellar travel becomes possible. Such as mapping details of water or even gas based celestial bodies (planets) with the use of probe drones.

@lukedowneslukedownes5900 Год назад

Good thought

@janeblogs324 Год назад

NASA forgot how to land on the moon yet they landed on mars and found plastic coke bottles. We are not mapping anything ever

@LoiteringReaper Год назад

@@lukedowneslukedownes5900 Maybe drones can be used in nuclear or waste gased areas, if they are not already being used this way.

@tailund3508 Год назад

Very cool and impressive. I am curious as to how they avoid collisions with other vessels, or running aground. Navigation at sea is pretty complex and multidimensional. I should hope there's no risk of being rammed by one of these during an ocean crossing...

@lukedowneslukedownes5900 Год назад

That probability is almost non existent

@Mateus-vj6fy Год назад

Hmm, this type of technology already exists for on-ground robots, autonomous submarines, etc. take a look at ROS2

@Mateus-vj6fy Год назад

And I'm not sure, but I think you can create an algorithm to map every obstacle into a 2D map to reduce the computational power needed.

@ohhmanitscam Год назад

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Similar technologies are enabling robots to safely operate around humans. Basically uses sensors (including visible light cameras you're used to on your phone) to map the environment actively and "localize" themselves in it. It's something us humans and most animals do naturally on autopilot without even thinking about it. :)

@ajmalshah934 Год назад

Is SailDrone hiring? I live near their headquarters and have experience with autonomous vehicle technology.

@Panakook Год назад

You could google them and then send them an email

@Travis7919 Год назад

I can imagine that fish harvesting companies would/will pay fortune for this data and then ..... fish out everything

@lincolnrock9158 Год назад

In the South Pacific there is something on the sea floor that looks like a huge turtle shell but it's a mile by 3 mile long and has teaks on the sea floor where u can tell it's been moving. The channel secureteam10 did a video on this 3 4 or 5 years ago the picture of the thing is on his thumbnail. What is this. There are also other weird anomalies around this object in sea floor.

@mauriciogerhardt3209 Год назад

Some people just take it too literally: "We must get to the bottom of this!"

@timkemmerling9037 Год назад

This series keeps blowing my mind!

@shuaige3360 Год назад

How many of these boats are currently sailing on the sea at a time?

@LordThorez Год назад

How feasible is this? How much time would it take to map all the areas we want? Also, how much time before the data collected is outdated? Is the ocean floor more static or dynamic on a project scale this large?

@Jimmy_Jones Год назад

I guess we will need this project to find out

@Dubstequtie Год назад

They said in the video as soon as 2030 we will map the whole ocean.. which is.. wild considering that is only 7 years.. As for it changing.. I am sure they will proceed sending them out and comparing map data for changes as they said in the video that they already are doing.

@randomusername509 Год назад

How do the drones don't bump into obstacles, eg ships or boats? Some kind of simple "autonomous driving"?

@RevJimyJamz Год назад

awesome to see innovative swarm like creations/creatures and such vibrant creators ..

@arborsamurai Год назад

Absolutely fascinating!

@4445doom Год назад

Military applications? I’m sure the military appreciates the data gathered…helps in logistics, finding enemies that are hiding, delivery of weapons…..

@edshelden7590 Год назад

I think our US military may have a version of one of these drones. I think last year the Iranians maybe Iranians captured one of these

@diegoparedes9101 Год назад

Fascinating, but I have to disagree, space and underwater (+1km) are more hostile that the ocean

@cheegum6296 Год назад

This is amazing!

@ropro9817 Год назад

Freethink: This is pretty cool tech, but what is Saildrone's business model? i.e. How do they make money to keep going?

@brandonparry2056 Год назад

I am sure there are many companies and governments that would love the data.

@wovasteengova Год назад

sell data most likely

@peters972 Год назад

Probs don’t sail near pirates too

@janeblogs324 Год назад

Finding oil/gas. Selling the coordinates obviously

@Yuv1 Год назад

Finding russian submarines

@airsoftwwbde Год назад

DoD be like: nice now give us all your data so we can Pinpoint Russian/Chinese Submarines.

@wovasteengova Год назад

4:35 something about this clip to the next scene is funny to me. Hard to explain. The dialog. Nicks walking and facial expression. I can't be the only one that finds this kinda funny😂

@genesises Год назад

"we can operate these vehicles with less power than a lightbulb uses" - proceeds to show massive solar panels on the sailboat.

@LordGryllwotth Год назад

I guess it would be with most of it turned off or going on a cycle.

@DigitalJedi Год назад

1 square meter of land at the equator produces receives a maximum of 1360W of solar energy. The best solar panels on the market are 47% efficient, cutting that available power down to 369W. That solar panel is not anywhere near perfectly perpendicular to the sun, and at 45 degrees to the sun, that would then be cut down to 1/sqrt(2) of the original number, or about 260W. That solar panel is not an entire square meter, so let's say it's 0.75 of that. That brings us down to 195W. If there are other losses, or they are just using what isn't the absolute best solar panel tech I could find, they could easily be in the 100W range. A more average solar panel efficiency of 30%, or a worse average angle to the sun would be pretty close to that mark.

@genesises Год назад

@@DigitalJedi thanks for that!

@TheFPSChannel Год назад

This is incredible.

@brycenarcisomercines5036 Год назад

beautiful technology!

@markeasley6149 Год назад

The US Navy needs to invest in these

@RaffyMaBoi Год назад

They already have their own

@neddyladdy Год назад

And here is another wave, there's one ! Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

@teklife Год назад

the algorythym is spooky, just this morning i was thinking about this project, which i'd heard of years ago. hours later it's a top video on my youtube homepage

@janeblogs324 Год назад

Still looks like a ponzi scheme with half the video being CGI and 1 spec of data shown

@Jimmy_Jones Год назад

But why were you thinking about it that morning? What other videos or search did you make to subconsciously think of it?

@teklife Год назад

@@Jimmy_Jones i wasn't previously thinking of anything remotely related to this. i just remembered the story about the drone sailboats and i wondered about what was up with that project, still ongoing? successful? problems? etc. and then this showed up right at the top, so odd.

@dinoanastasopoulos8511 Год назад

This is brilliant!

@huto9606 Год назад

Eine großartige Idee - eine gute Lösung - alles funktioniert, aber man braucht eine Menge Kaptial - doch sehe ihr viele - GRATLATION

@Jimmy_Jones Год назад

Data = money

@tannoyboy5021 Год назад

Great video!

@grahamkearnon6682 Год назад

Wow, it's if the British navy in the 1880's never did an Ocean survey or named the deepest point on earth the Challenger deep from the ships name.

@johnborton4522 Год назад

Wow, it's as if you think the British navy in the 1800s did an Ocean survey of the entire ocean rather than a tiny portion.

@grahamkearnon6682 Год назад

@@johnborton4522 I'm guessing you mean the 19th century.

@johnborton4522 Год назад

@@grahamkearnon6682 There's no need to guess, I said exactly what I meant - "the 1800s".

@DanaLordsonII Год назад

Amazing!

@Pencil0fDoom Год назад

Total global sensor saturation facilitating omniscient situational awareness for the monitoring, management & control of all resources & individuals is the technocratic utopian objective. All of the inspiring upsides of these ingenious devices notwithstanding, they constitute yet another big step toward its looming fulfillment. In that context, its just more swarm surveillance for future despots.

@einfachfritz Год назад

Would like to see these drones after 6 months out on sea! I cannot imagine all the sensors are still in place and running properly

@daria_morvedre Год назад

How come waves don't break it, if even wooden ships get broken into pieces?

@vietadvisor6781 Год назад

Do the drones run AIS? What collision avoidance system do they use?

@LordGryllwotth Год назад

The radars could automatically assign moving objects a NMEA string that feeds into the main computer, just the same as the AIS receiver would do.

@oldi184 Год назад

100s of meters per pixel at 8000 meters. That's a very very very low resolution. The abyssal plain which covers 80% of the ocean floor is 3000 to 6000 meters deep. So they don't see much with this technology. Objects 20 or 30 meters in size will not be visible at these depths. We need technology that can map the deep ocean floor with

@dmail44 Год назад

How do they avoid Collison with other boats and ships

@jameschen2308 Год назад

Awesome!!!

@Veeger Год назад

Wow! Robots generating jobs on land for humans!

@russellchampagne3830 Год назад

Next story will be how they’re selling the information to billionaires to mine for hundreds of billions of dollars. (They’re all already doing it)

@johnpatmos1722 Год назад

How does it operate as a business? Clearly, a lot of money is keeping this operational.

@breezywarhead8489 Год назад

Rip for drones getting hit by rogue waves

@avenuex3731 Год назад

I wonder if they know right-of-way. I don’t see a large ship yielding for one of these

@alexcarter8807 Год назад

Nope. But the drone might be able to evade, or be of a design that isn't damaged - much - by a run-in with a ship.

@user-dr2pg8fk2i Год назад

Gosh, look at all the cool stuff that can be done with family money!

@CunaGreenleaf Год назад

Why was the coast guard following the drone. They weren't trying to give it a ticket right?

@edshelden7590 Год назад

My guess the US Coast Guard was following the drone because they did not want to become a hazard to navigation for big ships transiting in and out of San Francisco bay. This leads me to more interesting questions like can there control center actually take remote control over these drones and steer them to different locations are out of harms way?

@edshelden7590 Год назад

My question is how easily and quickly the command center get remote control over these drones? How much actual control do they actually have on these drones . Do these drones have some sort of night lighting system and radar reflectors? Do these drones have an AIS system? How much of the data collected by these drones is readily accessible to the public?.

@johnpaul9606 Год назад

If only they could study humans and unlock and remove the treacherous parts.

@SJR_Media_Group Год назад

*_Perfect blend of Vision, Technology, and Affordability..._* Price points to allow this advanced technology has dropped drastically in recent years. Solar has matured, sonar scanning has matured, GPS navigation has matured, remote sensing and mission control has matured. If this was attempted 20 years ago, same concept would be prohibitively expensive. Drones sent into Space or across the Oceans have few physical restrictions. They don't need food, water, sleep, exercise, vacations, or doctor visits. They don't care how long their mission takes. Imagine what next generation drones can do when AI and Learning is programmed into it's Silicone Brain. *_We are on the verge of the next wave of Ocean Exploration on a Global Scale._*

@ericswain4177 Год назад

Got to map the Oceans so we can exploit them. The last frontier on Earth. Hope we discover similar intelligent life forms that teach us a new and non-Earth destructive way of life. Ocean sentence is next if not already.

@anthonywolf943 Год назад

AMAZING!!!

@dongningprc Год назад

Love your sense of humor

@jozz2248 Год назад

Richard Jenkins? I suppose the shortened first name said with a Spanish accent would sound pretty funny. 😳😆

@herzogsbuick Год назад

So does this mean the fake ID I had that said Richard Jenkins on it was real?! I'm so confused

@boathemian7694 Год назад

They look like my self steering vane on a kayak

@jimj2683 Год назад

They should use UHMWPE for the bottom of the hull to avoid barnacles.

@JoshuaDickin Год назад

That uses too much power for the scale of power they produce and can run on

@jimj2683 Год назад

@@JoshuaDickin I was talking about the plastic called ultra high molecular weight polyethylene.

@BigOLarry33 Год назад

So Freethink really missed the LeRoi Jenkins opportunity. FOR SHAME

@user001zyx Год назад

if we really want to save people & appreciate nature, we can do that for a lot less with better diet & more awareness of natural rescource use impact the data gathered with this cool tech certainly sounds as if it will be very valuable to companies & countries looking to enlargen their mineral, oil etc mining activities

@noahhess4955 11 месяцев назад

This video is so cool

@SuperEmanuel98 Год назад

They are pretending they do this for the weather and science. In reality they are just looking for Atlantis

@rocknrollajohnnyquid876 Год назад

Shoutout Lt Dan 😂

@appliancetraining Год назад

❤ very cool

@krimke881 Год назад

Why do we have these? we've been mapping ocean floors and the earth with satellites for decades. every single detail is seen from space.

@boathemian7694 Год назад

Nice.

@jeffgold3091 Год назад

collision avoidance electronics ?

@ThisIsToolman Год назад

Ah! “Truth “. Great technology.

@jetfu400 Год назад

Will the data be open to the public? Or will it be top secret again?

@sbiecoproductions6062 Год назад

WAAAAIT A SECOND... at 03.49 you can see a sligltly different pattern color, on the drone right behind the orange one in the front. IS THAT a MILITARY CAMO? duuude, monitoring the oceans and saving the planet, sponsored by the military uh? samo old story, folks

@RA-II Год назад

Are they hurting the whale with there sonar

@joshuajones634 Год назад

Hey Department of Defense wink wink nod nod.

@REV1517 Год назад

I don't even want to know the headache they have with government military and intelligence they deal with.

@johnnyearp52 Год назад

We are not rebuilding our world from scratch by any means.

@adams7707 Год назад

6:17 Not true, already more than 23% of the ocean floor is mapped.

@TomTomLo1 Год назад

i have never said the words "incandescent lightbulb"

@chrisscullynz Год назад

Its impossible to predict the weather anymore than 30 days as it is a "chaotic system"

@doctorgoose7 Год назад

So is the turbulence in water, but that's a huge area of research. Chaos can be tamed with mathematics.

@chrisscullynz Год назад

@@doctorgoose7 Maybe in theory

@doctorgoose7 Год назад

@@chrisscullynz It's how we currently design pumps, pipelines, mixing, polymer science, stock markets, and more.

@Mrissecool Год назад

@@chrisscullynz Some aspects of chaotic systems can still have equations with huge practical application, for example turbulent flow in pipes. It's not possible to calculate or predict the path of every individual drop, but from knowing that the flow is turbulent, there are a lot of other behaviours that can be reliably predicted in the system.

@jimj2683 Год назад

Machine learning will eventually be able to predict every single wave and wind gust on the planet.

@NaniFatimana Год назад

They are going to find cthulhu

@RASK1904 Год назад

Have them gather the plastics.

@waynegnarlie1 Год назад

Great narration, personable and not condescending or contrived sounding.

@price724 Год назад

They are going to find the alien bases

@Thereallyjonez Год назад

😂 sounds like a name from a fake ID , Robert Jenkins

@Naturally_curious Год назад

Just a little reminder that you can't call fishs "our fish". Human doesn't own anything.

@JesseSlaughter Год назад

Great until local criminals steal them

@bearlemley Год назад

All the great marketing buzzwords were used in this “documentary”

@ZalexMusic Год назад

good god, why did you let the intern write the narration? "for realsies"

@skpjoecoursegold366 Год назад

coooooooooooooool.

@alexeywelgum8093 Год назад

Movie scenes are very distractive

@kabangukabangu2529 Год назад

Could they spot submarines?

@Xsiondu Год назад

Briefly, the sub is powered and on its way somewhere. The drone is going somewhere else. Two ships passing in the night basically.

@Xsiondu Год назад

For strategy we can identify probable sub locations via satellite then to be sure we send it sub hunting planes out to that location

@fairwind8222 Год назад

Navigational hazard

@wovasteengova Год назад

they need an api

@svenweihusen57 Год назад

Cool drones but predicting weather month in advance is BS. The data from the drones is valuable but that it will massively increase the weath forecast is BS. You can get most of the data by satellite. And the weather system is turbulent aka a prediction past a certain point is impossible because even tiny changes can have huge impacts and this sums up to a point where it it simply impossible to make precise predictions no matter how good your data are.