The curious craft with its 10-foot wingspread looks like a sleek jet plane, not what it really is: a small submarine capable of flying deep beneath the ocean’s surface to survey whatever’s there.
And that’s just what it will do next month when scientists and conservationists from California’s national marine sanctuaries take it underwater in Monterey Bay and start tracking everything that’s living there, from whales to tiny krill.
The newly designed, battery-powered submarine is only 20 feet long and is built to carry two people to depths of 1,500 feet as they cruise at a sedate 7 mph.
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