The Slocum glider's job is to explore the ocean and report back what it learns. In this March test, the Navy used a helicopter to launch one.

Project plans include deployment of the Slocum Glider, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), to be retrieved after sampling the waters of eastern Lancaster Sound - a critical choke point in the ...

Altshuler says they generally sell the G2 Slocum Glider mostly to universities and research organizations for oceanographic scientific research.

German pilots flew the motorised glider, pictured, over the summit of Mount Everest and filmed the event using a specialist 3D camera. Researchers plan to use this footage to build a 3D model of ...

On 20 December China quietly returned the US Navy's UUV that it had brazenly seized five days earlier in the South China Sea. The platform was a Slocum Glider, although when contacted manufacturer ...

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has successfully tested the first deep sea long range ‘Slocum’ gliders under the recently launched Deep Ocean Mission to monitor ...