We got back from competition about 2 months ago, but I had been waiting for official scores to be posted. In any event, we placed fifth, behind Cornell (who finished every required objective, something extremely rare in this competition), University of Victoria, University of Rhode Island, and University of Central Florida.

We each averaged about 2 hours of sleep in the first 5 nights, and it didn't get much better in the final night. We're still in the process of working out kinks in the new digital sonar board, something we spent most of our time on there, but we're hoping to have a new board revision done by the end of the calendar year. We had some success with vision tasks, including passing under the "barbed wire" a couple times (featured briefly in one of the 5-minute short videos, though AUVSI doesn't always manage to archive old content, so I won't link). The hydrophones were not placed optimally, although the bottom three were positioned similarly to prior years. We mounted seven, but only wound up trying to use a subset of them.

Pictured, left-to-right, are Rocky, Nathan, Chase, Michael, Carl, Kyle, and Chris. The grabber shown at the bottom was assembled in a couple hours (plus time for the adhesive to dry), and the front few were painted black so as to interfere with the vision less. Shown also are our two new VideoRay motors (to complement the 4 existing Seabotix motors) that increased our forward speed some, and our new Fischer bulkhead connectors.