SCOUT-class ROV tasks

THE UBIQUITOUS PROBLEM OF PLASTIC POLLUTION

• Disconnect the power to a Seabin
• Replace an old mesh catch bag on the Seabin with a new one
• Reconnect the power to a Seabin
• Remove floating plastic debris from the surface
• Remove a ghost net from midwater
• Remove plastic debris from the bottom

THE CATASTROPHIC IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CORAL REEFS

• Fly a transect line over a coral reef
• Remove coral fragments from the nursery structure
• Outplant coral fragments into the reef
• Cull an outbreak of Crown of Thorn sea stars
• Collect samples of sponge species for pharmaceutical research

MAINTAINING HEALTHY WATERWAYS PART II: DELAWARE RIVER AND BAY

• Return a sediment sample to the surface
• Determine the type of contaminant present in the sediment sample
• Retrieve a sample of mussels and estimate the number of mussels in a mussel bed
• Estimate the total amount of water filtered by the mussel bed
• Remove a trap full of eels
• Place an empty eel trap in the designated area