A few moments with a colourful shoal of perch on the tidal river Wharfe in Yorkshire this evening. 🐟🐟
Adrian Pinchbeck
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Builder and landscaper with interests in boating, angling, tagging sharks, benthic mapping and aerial surveying, BRUVs, searching for shipwrecks, technical builds, conservation, climate change...
![Figure 2 Low-cost innovations already advancing deep-sea research.
Lower-cost alternatives to state-of-the-art deep-sea research tools are already under development and being deployed, expanding participation in deep-sea science and broadening deep-sea datasets. Examples include: (A) a 3D-printed deep-sea housing with an integrated epoxy-potted ‘DEEPi’ camera on the endcap [13]; (B) an ‘Azor drift-cam’ [11]; (C) a deep-sea BRUV system (photo courtesy of Kaitlin Noyes); (D) an open-source, deep-sea timed weight release system using an integrated 3D-printed housing for the battery and control electronics (Motsenbocker, B. et al., 2025, IEEE Oceans Brest, conference); (E) the ‘MARS’ programmable, multi-purpose automatic release system [15]; and (F) low-cost biotelemetry tags and receiver [16].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxsz274bqthnltrjihgx3nfc/bafkreianitk4dzrp65iz4cdrhpsael4hpyx7ci2glq3fhtba3nl7q6ilrm)
