Ocean Robots Journey has begun for New Scientific findings

Unmanned four Wave Glider ocean robots have started their journey across the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, 15^th December. The name of this journey is called “PacX Challenge”. Virgin Oceanic and Google Earth are the two key companies behind this extraordinary voyage.

During this voyage these robot vehicles will cover nearly 33,000 nautical miles. They will proceed across the places which have extreme environment. The robots have departed from San Francisco to Hawaii. Then they will make two pairs and one pair will go to Japan and other pair will go to Australia. When they will reach their final goal, they will have gained a Guinness World Record for their longest journey ever made by robots.

Approximately 2.25 million discrete data would be collected by these four Wave Gliders Robots. During their journey they will send important ocean data on waves, salinity, weather, water temperature, fluorescence, dissolved particles etc. These huge data would be provided to the scientists, students, educators and the ordinary people. The data would be available in real time and free of cost.

There are challenges the robots may face during their long journey. Across their way they may fall in storms, strong equatorial currents and they may collide with floating debris. Other big problem is the ships which will cross the route. As these are small sized robotic vehicles, they aren’t visible from a distance. This may cause collision with the coming ships.

The partners of this huge initiative are very optimistic about their success. According to the ocean scientist, less than 10% of the vast ocean has been mapped out. From that view this PacX Challenge would reveal many secrets about the mysterious ocean. Anyone can see the daily update about the voyage on Google Earth website.

Please visit the following links to know about Ocean Robots Race in details:

http://gcaptain.com/race-pacific-partners-join-hands/?34001

http://www.charterworld.com/news/ocean-robots-journey-pacific-ocean-scientific-discoveries