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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2017
The United States of America As Represented BY the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (US);
Ted K. Miles, Onancock, VA (US);
Geoffrey L. Bland, Parksley, VA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are watercrafts with rotatable air propulsion steering units and retractable measurement instruments. The watercraft can include a substantially flat bottom, a top deck, a rotatable air propulsion steering unit configured to propel the watercraft and to rotate in order to steer the watercraft when the watercraft is submerged in a liquid body without requiring a submerged rudder steering system under the substantially flat bottom. The watercraft can also include a retractable measurement deck configured to alternatively raise measurement instruments above the liquid body and lower into the liquid body.