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