Competition day 1 recap from the Transdec

Day one at the Transdec in San Diego was a great success for Team SubjuGator. Our morning started at 6:30am. We quickly packed the pelican cases with the items necessary to run the sub all day. This turned out to be 2 medium pelicans and two small pelicans. Luckily, the sub (on its cart) and the four pelican cases fit perfectly inside our two Suburbans (thanks Dr. Schwartz). We arrived at the Transdec at 7:20am and began to setup our tent. Our new awesome SubjuGator banner stood out among all of
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Last day of testing!

Yesterday marked the last day of in-water testing of SubjuGator 7 before it began its voyage to San Diego. Unfortunately, there happened to be a tropical storm bearing down on us at the same time. Lucky for us the sub is waterproof (laptops are not). We traveled to three different pools throughout the day (different pool hours) to debug as many mission behaviors as we could before it got dark and the heavier storms began to hit. We were able to successfully debug the pipe and buoy missions. The
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