Raining Cats and Submarines

We had an unexpected visitor stop by today. Her name is Debby. Tropical Storm Debby, that is. However, she didn’t stop us from testing at the pool. 30 mph winds, drenching rain (the sub didn’t mind), and a few waterlogged engineers can’t stop our motivation. We’re excited to have successfully completed all of our goals for the day, despite the wet inconvenience. As of the time of this post, it has been raining for 14 straight hours. Go Gators!
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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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