FLAT TIRE AND COLLAPSED TARMAC

PROBLEM(S) SOLVED!

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Hunter,

I want to show you and your crew what we were doing with your equipment. Without it we would not have been able to extract the aircraft from the sink holes she was sitting in. This aircraft will be used as a Vietnam memorial honoring Aircrew who lost their lives while fighting in Southeast Asia. Again I want to thank you and the gang for your great support in this honorable project.

Frank L. Motter

Thunder Air

Photos Courtesy of Frank L. Motter, Thunder Air Museum 8838 W Avenue Lancaster, CA 93536

In 2011 a devastating tsunami sent enormous towers of water crashing through coastal towns throughout the Pacific. Most of those towns were destroyed. Subsequently a nuclear disaster at the country's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused by the storm. Together, they created a significant humanitarian crisis. In Japan alone over 19,000 lives were claimed by the storm and it is believed thousands more are still unaccounted for.

Using the AC-CESS AC-ROV 100 from Rental Tools Online, Dr. Tetsuya Kimura, Dr. of Eng., and Associate Prof. Dept. of System Safety, Nagaoka Univ. of Tech. set to work searching for underwater dead bodies and rubble that might hamper additional rescue and recovery efforts.

Hi Ken,

The ROV will be used for the follow up activities of below
http://crasar.org/2011/10/20/on-way-to-japan-irs-crasar-return-to-minamisanriku-cho/
to find underwater dead bodies and rubbles. Not nuclear related.

This follow up search will be carried out by local people, e.g., fisherman or university students volunteers, so such small ROV is very suitable.
We are very looking forward to get the ROV.
Thank you very much again for your quick response.

Still over 3000 people are missing, so we hope the ROV could contribute
for their finding.

Best regrads,
Tetsu.

Photos Courtesy of Dr. Tetsu Kimura, NPO Rescue System Institute

Locating the Buoy

Recovering the Buoy

Hi Hunter,
Here are a few photos of us using the Pulse 8x out on the Ice pack in Barrow Alaska. We were searching for a lost scientific buoy that was designed to freeze into the ice and stay there over the winter. Because we deployed the buoy in the early part of the freeze up season, the buoy ended up getting pushed under the ice and stopped transmitting to the Satellites. With the use of the metal detector we were able to located the buoy about 16" under the ice. After 3 hours of chiseling, we freed up the buoy and it began communicating to the Satellites once again. It was a very successful trip and we couldn't have done it without the Pulse 8x detector!

Thanks,
Jim

Pictures and description courtesy of the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab.