International Summer School on Underwater Glider Technology

The Chancellor of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, José Regidor, and PLOCAN’s director, Octavio Llinás, opened the event, the main goal of which was to provide a full overview and the operating basics of such specific unmanned underwater vehicles.

This edition was joined by a group of fourteen students from Portugal, Cape Verde, Sweden and Spain, with the collaboration and active participation of seventeen leading companies in the field of marine observation instruments (Teledyne Webb Research, i-Robot, Liquid Robotics, ACSA-Alcen, Bluefin Robotics, Teledyne RDI, Nortek, Contros, Rockland Scientific, Seabird Electronics, Turner Designs, Wetlabs, AADI, INNOVA Oceanografia Litoral, EMS, Grafinta and SIDMAR). The educational content included theoretical and practical sessions in lab and open waters of Gran Canaria.

Nowadays PLOCAN owns several underwater glider technologies that have been handled by students during the school as examples of the different options that market currently offers.