Were they serious? “It was clearly going to be a very difficult engineering challenge,” she said. They would be refitting one of their autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, to track and film great white sharks. The project was peculiar-outrageous, actually. So when Kukulya’s boss, Tom Austin, came to her and said, ‘Amy, I’ve got just the project for you,’ it had to be interesting. As an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), she has operated autonomous underwater vehicles beneath Arctic ice in Greenland, in a New Zealand lake to find geothermal terraces submerged by a volcanic eruption, and with Navy SEALS working on underwater docking systems. Amy Kukulya’s clients often have curious requests, but this was among the oddest.
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