Democratized Underwater Exploration
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What might a solid stack for democratized underwater exploration look like?
- Grand challenges and missions: Suited to democratized exploration
- Strong explorer community: Comparable to open source, maker movement, astronomy
- Open-source software tools: To process data from community oceanic infrastructure
- Infrastructure relations: With research institutions, commercial shipping, military
- Piggyback capabilities: For opportunistic staging, deployment, communications, and telemetry
- Hardware foundation: High-quality, low-cost, high-variety hardware with greater range, endurance, and sensor payloads