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May 24th, 2010
Re-mapping Canada’s Arctic

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EDMONTON JOURNAL –  Peering into the dark waters, they bade farewell to a 7.4-metre, torpedo-shaped submersible that had been flown in pieces from Port Coquitlam, B.C., before being put together on the sea ice south of Borden Island in the remotest part of the Arctic. Qaujisati, “One Who Searches,” is the unoffi cial name for the 2,200-kilogram “autonomous unmanned vehicle.” It has an acoustic modem on-board that sends data showing where it is, how fast it’s going and what the seafloor looks like. Read More