Blackbeard the Acoustic Wave Glider, East Carolina University

Great meeting in Den Haag. Aquatic Noise 2019 -2019. Blackbeard’s passive acoustic capabilities were introduced this week to the best underwater noise experts in the world.

We are featured on the May 2019 cover of Sea Technology magazine.

Blackbeard is on display NOW at the Coastal Studies Institute.

Photos taken before, during, and after our missions.

Blackbeard is on display at Annapolis, MD
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Blackbeard is back on land after a successful recovery today near Beaufort Inlet, NC. The recovery team celebrated today with shrimp and oyster burgers today at El's Drive In in Morehead City, NC. The recovery team was (L to R) Joe Luczkovich, Phil Deville, Chris Thaxton, Mark Sprague, Eric Diaddorio, and Tyler Peacock.

Lots of rain today over Blackbeard. He is surveying the natural and artificial reefs in Onslow Bay tonight. The batteries will be depleted during this overnight survey with very little solar charge today, but that is OK. We will pick it up tomorrow morning.

The location of Blackbeard the Wave Glider is shown as of 4 PM, with Speed Over Ground (in knots). It is moving faster than ever on this mission about 1.9 knots, due to a favourable current direction and high wave action. Solar panels have completely charged the batteries. Blackbeard is heading back to the recovery location near Beaufort Inlet. We will sample around the Swansboro Rotary Club Artificial Reef tonight (AR-345). It is working perfectly and will finish its mission early.

This is the tow-body pulled behind Blackbeard with a Decimus computer (made by Saint Andrews Instrumentation Laboratory, Scotland) in the tow-body that we use to listen to the underwater sounds and to record fishes, whales, and dolphins.

Photos from Wave Glider School on the Big Island (Hawai'i). Roger Rulifson, Mark Sprague, and Joe Luczkovich went to Liquid-Robotics Support Operations Test and Evaluation Facility in Kawaihae, Hawai’i to learn how to assemble, maintain, deploy, recover and operate a wave glider.

Wave Glider School, Kona, Hawaii 84 new photos · Album by Joseph Luczkovich