Dec 7, 2009
First Underwater Glider Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
When I reported on the first attempt at an intercontinental jet-pack flight , I stated that it usually takes a Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight before some new technology literally takes off. Such was the case of the Scarlet Knight, which is officially the first underwater glider to cross 4,591 miles of the Atlantic ocean. It traveled for 221 days at a pace of about 4 centimeters per second.
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First Underwater Glider Crosses the Atlantic Ocean