a_shorething wrote:I wonder if you could put something on the bottom of your ROV to help you 'hold the bottom' in addition to being slightly negatively buoyant. Maybe some pointed legs that you cold kind of jam into the silt or mud using the down thruster and then wait for the silt to clear. You might even shape it so that any current moving across it would push it down into the silt more, rather than lifting it.
In this way you could stake out a spot, 'land', film for as long as you like, and then lift off when you're done.
I actually think that that is going to work out fine. Easy to accomplish and test and then modify to different needs. I like that!
Haha, cool. Maybe I will have to do that if the a_shorething solution doesn't work.
Would need motor(s) and gears. A miniature version of these: http://www.rapidanchor.com/The_Wombat.htm