PIRatE Lab Tour

Here is a quick tour of our PIRatE Lab’s lab.  We have been getting several requests about our lab and decided to give you a sense of our set-up.

 

Sand samples from across the Southern California Bight.

Sand samples from across the Southern California Bight.

Open ROV 2.7: The Black Pearl on our custom launching platform.

Open ROV 2.7: The Black Pearl on our custom launching platform.

Our Phantom ROV being overhauled and rebuilt.

Our Phantom ROV being overhauled and rebuilt.

 

We’ve also had lots of questions about oil; what it looks like, what it smells like, and how sticky it is.  We have posted our observations about oil before, but here is what the samples look like back in the lab: