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Introducing The Swimming Drone-Just When You Thought The Pool Was Safe

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By Rightwingconspirator

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Camera drones are all the rage today, but what if you want to take your camera down into water instead of up into the air? That’s where the Seawolf comes in.

Created by the company TTRobotix, the Seawolf is a remote control submarine that’s designed to carry a small camera for underwater photos and videos.

The 7.7 kilogram (~17 pound), 70cm long sub can dive down to a depth of 8 meters and features a mounting point on the front that can fit a GoPro HERO3 or HERO4 action camera. The 5-blade brass propellers allow the sub to travel at up to 3.5kph (~2.2mph), and the built-in battery can power the vessel for up to 50 minutes on a charge.

More: The Seawolf Is to Water as Camera Drones Are to Air

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CuriousLurker Jun 6, 2015 2:30:13pm

People are already hostile to the aerial drones, so I can only imagine how enraged they’d get over a drone submarine.

CuriousLurker Jun 6, 2015 3:47:10pm

P.S. The other day I was on YouTube watching videos of hawks & other birds attacking aerial drones, so I was just sitting here wondering what sorts of fish (or other water dwelling creatures) might consider a submarine drone a threat.

Me thinks some photographers are prolly gonna lose some equipment finding out. A fish might not do a lot of damage, but a protective mother bird, otter, or beaver could. And what about all those southern states with gators! *CHOMP* Even a young one could do some damage.

Oh, and meet Texas’ river monster, the alligator gar. It’s a prehistoric critter (it’s been around for 100 million years or so) that has the body of a fish and the head of an alligator. If you saw a photo of one, you’d think it was shopped, heh. Luckily, I never met one in person, but the Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife says they can grow up to 8 ft. long and weigh more than 300 lbs.

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Natural range

Alligator gars inhabit a wide variety of aquatic habitats, but most are found in the Southern United States in reservoirs and lakes, in the backwaters of lowland rivers, and in the brackish waters of estuaries, bayous and bays. They have occasionally been seen in the Gulf of Mexico. In Texas and Louisiana it is common to see large gars breaking the surface in reservoirs, bayous, and brackish marshes. They are found throughout the lower Mississippi River Valley and Gulf Coast states of the Southern United States and Mexico as far south as Veracruz, encompassing the following states in the United States: Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and Georgia. […]

Google Images results for alligator gar. They have two rows of teeth and supposedly eat mostly fish and the occasional bird or mammal, but I wouldn’t want to run into one and have to personally test that out.

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