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- Five students from King Abdulaziz University have developed a floating device that automatically descends and resurfaces in the ocean using.
- According to Arab News, these five students include Bandar Khalid Al-Zahrani, Yusuf Al-Otaibi, Abdul Salam Al-Fifi, Ziyad Al-Shamrani and Al.
- Speaking on behalf of the team, Al-Zahrani, a 24-year-old mechanical engineering student at the university's Faculty of Engineering, said th.
Five students from King Abdulaziz University have developed a floating device that automatically descends and resurfaces in the ocean using a simple and low-cost system. This instrument would also record the depth, pressure and temperature of the ocean.
According to Arab News, these five students include Bandar Khalid Al-Zahrani, Yusuf Al-Otaibi, Abdul Salam Al-Fifi, Ziyad Al-Shamrani and Ali Al-Siari. They spent six to seven months taking the project from initial idea to planning, preliminary design and manufacturing of the device.
Speaking on behalf of the team, Al-Zahrani, a 24-year-old mechanical engineering student at the university's Faculty of Engineering, said the project aims to facilitate the process of collecting data from different depths of the ocean using a small device that can automatically move up and down.
He said such a system could be useful for scientists, environmental monitoring and ocean data gathering organizations and research teams developing underwater robots and research instruments.
"If this device is further developed and its practical capabilities are enhanced in the future, its use can be extended to monitoring the marine environment in the energy, oil and gas sectors, to government agencies related to surveys and major coastal development projects," he said.
