Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
MBARI AUVs
Docking Vehicle Images

Access to dropweight burn wire with foam and MVC forward bulkhead removed.jpg

Accessing the magnetic switch through the handhole, top view.jpg

Accessing the magnetic switch through the handhole.jpg

Accessing the Tail cone oil comp through the hand hole.jpg

Assembled battery midsection, seen from the front.jpg

Battery midsection seen from forward with syntactic foam removed.jpg

Battery Oil Compensator installed on port side.jpg

Battery Oil Compensator Plumbing, port side view.JPG

Battery Oil Compensator Plumbing, stbd side view.JPG

Bow on with CTD wetting tubing installed.JPG

Cable run through battery midsection, port side bilge.JPG

Drop weight from below.jpg

Hand stuck in hand hole.jpg

Installing screws that hold syntactic foam in place.jpg

Looking forward at the DVL.jpg

Looking forward into the science nose cone at the HS2, CTD and USBL.jpg

Looking forward past the tailcone foam at the DVL.jpg

Looking into the science nose cone past the removed syntactic in the battery midsection.jpg

Looking over the top of the HS2 forward into the science nose cone.jpg

Main Vehicle Computer Sphere, port side.jpg

Main Vehicle Computer Sphere, stbd side.jpg

MBARI Dock1.JPG

MBARI Dock2.JPG

MVC forward bulkhaed being installed , port view.jpg

MVC forward bulkhead being installed.jpg

MVC forward bulkhead sliding into place.jpg

MVC forward bulkhead with Parosci, Super Sub Mini and Sonardyne Transponder installed.jPG

Syntactic foam being installed in aft battery.jpg

Syntactic foam being installed in forward battery.jpg

Syntactic foam installed on DVL and MVC, aft port view.jpg

Syntactic foam installed on DVL and MVC, aft stbd view.jpg

Syntactic foam sliding into place, aft battery.jpg

Tailcone Assembly.jpg

Syntactic foam sliding into place, forward battery.jpg

Tail section cover installed.jpg

Tail section with Tail cone and syntactic foam removed.jpg

Tail section with Tail cone and syntactic installed.jpg

Tail section with Tail cone removed, syntactic visible.jpg

Tailcone actuators and gimble.jpg

Tailcone electonics.jpg

Tailcone Oil compensator.jpg

Tailcone with top and bottom syntactic foam installed.jpg

Top view of AUV, looking forward from MVC with covers removed.jpg

Top view of AUV, looking forward from Tail cone with covers removed.jpg

View of drop weight burnwire past foward bulkhead of MVC and brackets for Super Sub Mini.jpg

 

Last updated: Jan. 03, 2008