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This is insane $30K a day just for a boat?! Wow You'd think with "drone technology" you could just send these things out there and have it surface and beam bac

by ge96 9y ago

This is insane $30K a day just for a boat?! Wow You'd think with "drone technology" you could just send these things out there and have it surface and beam back images by satellite. Sphere designs. Haha just a ball that sinks to the bottom of the ocean. What about sea floor changes how long would these maps be valid for? Anyway that's crazy. Won't be deploying my gold-finding crabs anytime soon.

cr1895 9y ago
>This is insane $30K a day just for a boat?! Wow Specialized vessels (e.g. heavy crane ships, pipelay) can cost 250k-500k per day. A smaller survey vessel will obviously be much cheaper, but there's crew to pay, operating costs, specialized labor costs (ROV engineers, scientists), logistics, fuel, etc. It all adds up. >You'd think with "drone technology" you could just send these things out there Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that aren't tethered to a ship are in wide use. However, you still need a ship to deploy, maintain, etc. Here's an article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322714000747 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322714...
- ge96 9y ago
  Thanks this stuff is awesome. Like that one drone that was caught by a fishing net.
arethuza 9y ago
I know people who charge ~$10K per day..... $30K for a good size ocean going ship doesn't seem that unreasonable.
- quickben 9y ago
  Out of curiosity, what's their field?
  - chinathrow 9y ago
    Highly specialized laywers maybe?
    - arethuza 9y ago
      Yes - senior QCs.
      - Qwertious 9y ago
        How much work do they get? Because in theory, at that rate they could get 3.65 million dollars a year if they didn't take breaks (and maybe "only" 2 million dollars a year if they did).
        vijayr02 9y ago
        Don't forget the leverage they get from charging out juniors at high rates as well. Magic circle law firms could easily charge 500 pounds per hour for an associate and a significant part of that will go into the partners' kitty
        pjc50 9y ago
        Amounts up to about £1m, it seems: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/legal/7500471/The-countrys-highest-paid-barristers.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/legal/75... In case you think that's rather a lot, remember that the modal barrister may get paid a lot less: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-bentwood/legal-aid-reforms_b_4273608.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-bentwood/legal-aid-r... And it's certainly small beer compared to CEOs, footballers or top TV celebrities.
jbanan 9y ago
We are working on it, but batteries make long-term missions hard. Sonar sucks up a lot of power.

by ge96 9y ago

cr1895 9y ago

>This is insane $30K a day just for a boat?! Wow Specialized vessels (e.g. heavy crane ships, pipelay) can cost 250k-500k per day. A smaller survey vessel will obviously be much cheaper, but there's crew to pay, operating costs, specialized labor costs (ROV engineers, scientists), logistics, fuel, etc. It all adds up. >You'd think with "drone technology" you could just send these things out there Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that aren't tethered to a ship are in wide use. However, you still need a ship to deploy, maintain, etc. Here's an article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322714000747 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322714...

ge96 9y ago
Thanks this stuff is awesome. Like that one drone that was caught by a fishing net.

arethuza 9y ago

I know people who charge ~$10K per day..... $30K for a good size ocean going ship doesn't seem that unreasonable.

quickben 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what's their field?
- chinathrow 9y ago
  Highly specialized laywers maybe?
  - arethuza 9y ago
    Yes - senior QCs.
    - Qwertious 9y ago
      How much work do they get? Because in theory, at that rate they could get 3.65 million dollars a year if they didn't take breaks (and maybe "only" 2 million dollars a year if they did).
      - vijayr02 9y ago
        Don't forget the leverage they get from charging out juniors at high rates as well. Magic circle law firms could easily charge 500 pounds per hour for an associate and a significant part of that will go into the partners' kitty
      - pjc50 9y ago
        Amounts up to about £1m, it seems: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/legal/7500471/The-countrys-highest-paid-barristers.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/legal/75... In case you think that's rather a lot, remember that the modal barrister may get paid a lot less: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-bentwood/legal-aid-reforms_b_4273608.html http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-bentwood/legal-aid-r... And it's certainly small beer compared to CEOs, footballers or top TV celebrities.

jbanan 9y ago

We are working on it, but batteries make long-term missions hard. Sonar sucks up a lot of power.