REMUS 6000 Figure 1. REMUS 6000 http://mil-embedded.com/articles/unmanned-navys-sea-mine-hunting-capabilities/ A recently deployed Unmanned Systems Maritime Search and Rescue vehicle is the REMUS 6000, (Figure 1.) an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) which is an innovative, versatile research tool, designed to operate in depths ranging from 82 feet to 19,685 feet (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2017). The REMUS 6000 played a key role in the search and recovery of the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A33-200, which disappeared over the ocean on June 1, 2009, after encountering severe thunderstorms while enroute to Paris from Rio de Janeiro. In April 2011, a search team lead by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, operating three REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicles made by Hydroid, located the plane’s wreckage and black boxes off the coast of Brazil. The discovery was made in nearly 2.5 miles below the Indian Ocean’s surface in topogr...