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This view is from the surface as my students are lowering the ROV into the water.
Below is the last surface view my students have of their ROV as it begins its underwater mission. Students use the view from the ROV's video cameras to explore the ocean below them.
Once again I feel the first picture is more compelling do to a change in camera position. The view from under the surface of the ocean. A view that most people are unable to obtain. The biggest problem I have with this project is getting people to believe that high school students have built an ROV, traveled 8,000 miles to the other side of the world, deployed the ROV in the Ocean and actually found a missing Marine Corps F4U Corsair fighter that went down in 1944.
The underwater views are an important part of the story because they show that the ROV actually worked.
I have two better photos to illustrate this. While I took the three photos above I did not take the next two.
Both pictures are of the same Corsair we found and take on the same day and about at the same time. The top one we call the money shot. The bottom photo is from a GoPro camera mounted on the students ROV in place of an underwater video camera that was damaged on the previous dive. Once again these two photos involve a change in position and perspective. The thing that makes the first photo more compelling is that the photo includes the ROV, the corsair and the diver. The top photo was taken at a shallower depth and we pulled the photo back into Photoshop and added some color to the ROV and took out a little bit of the blue green from the water. The change of perspective allowed us to highlight our ROV above the crash and to prove that we were there.
Both photos were taken with GoPro Cameras underwater. The top photo was taken by another team member Derek Abbey.(Corsair and ROV).
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