As reported in the S.F. Chronicle Friday the 19th: an unmanned submersible will be examining the McKinney Bay shoreline collapse of thousands of years ago. This occurred right in the Tahoma neighborhood! The California Geological Survey will be conducting the exploration of the underwater area off the west shore.
The first dives will occur off Sugar Pine State Park shoreline. The $2 million vehicle will look for fault line clues as to why the slide happened at this particular location of the lake. The sub will collect images of bottom, instrument data with details of rocks and canyon walls that remain today. This is the same sub identified last year as that vehicle that will eventually go to Antarctica for the same purpose. Ross Powell of Northern Illinois Univ. will be using the sub there.
It is built by DOER Marine of Alameda, CA, weighs about 2200lbs, and is remotely operated from the surface. It is only 22 inches in diameter.
If you're diving in the area, keep your eyes open!
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