AUV are platforms, just like the Timmy Toy,…..
which SFRX says is still experimental on their website. Whoever did the write-up on the website needs to be fired. And when are they gonna update that crap?
Anyway, according to the website the Toy “flies” a few feet off the seabed and is supposedly fitted with an array of sensors, just like an AUV. The sensors send info to the (ahem) command center and the info is processed with the so-called proprietary software. The Timmy Toy doesn’t detect anything. Apparently it can’t even navigate the currents at Juno, and divers have to go ahead of it to make sure it doesn’t run into anything coming up out of the seabed.
What a joke.
But let’s play the pretend game and go along with the premise the Timmy Toy works….or at least the software program that can detect silver and gold.
Even if that is all eventually figured out, the current platform is a joke. Whatever Timmy looked at before he came up with the design of the platform, he didn’t learn very much.
If you have great research and can narrow the search area, then an AUV can be deployed with HISAS, side scan sonar, sub bottom, and other sensors, as well as cameras. Real salvors look for wrecks known to carry valuable cargo. They find the wreck and they know what’s there. They don’t need a Toy to tell them.
And divers don’t need to do recon missions for AUV’s. They can be pre-programmed and are truly autonomous, unlike the Timmy Toy, which is still experimental.