Santander (EFE) miles north of the Cantabrian capital.
After completing the necessary preparations in Ferrol (A Coruña), the “Rov Comanche” arrived this Sunday inside the ship Don Inda together with the necessary technical equipment for its operation in the search coordinated by the Maritime Rescue Center in Santander, according to The Government Delegation in Cantabria has reported.
The ship María de Maeztu and the Helimer 202 of Salvamento and the patrol boat Río Aller and the Cuco helicopter of the Civil Guard are already participating in this search.
The robot will join this operation after a first remote-controlled underwater vehicle of the Civil Guard was not able, despite hitting bottom 130 meters in the area of the sinking, to find the sunken ship, inside which it is believed that It could be Walter Ferreiro, the person who disappeared in the shipwreck that claimed the lives of two other fishermen.
The Vilaboa Uno sank at dawn this Monday with ten crew members, seven of whom were rescued by boats that were in the area, after notifying the Maritime Rescue that it had a leak in the hull and was sinking.
robot features
The Rov Comanche, weighing 1,200 kilograms, can go down to a depth of 1,000 meters in weather conditions that do not exceed 25 knots of wind and a sea state of force 4 on the Beaufort scale.
It has seven thrusters, four in the horizontal plane and three vertical, with which it achieves a speed of three knots and a payload -capacity to carry weight- of 250 kilograms.
It has three cameras (two of them on motorized supports), a search sonar with a maximum range of 300 meters, a sonar-altimeter that reaches 50 meters, a depth gauge and a flash beacon for surface location. It also has two hydraulic arms and a guillotine cable cutter.
Power and commands are sent via a remote control via the cable to the Rov, which in turn transmits the image from the video cameras and data from the sensors and sonars to the ship’s control center on the surface.
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