The Project:
The Joint-service Active Watch Surveillance Submersible (JAWSS) is a final year engineering design project being completed as part of the mechanical engineering degree program at Dalhousie University, Halifax.
It is intended to be low-cost and effective in a wide range of industrial applications including, but not limited to:
- underwater examination;
- damage assessment;
- confined space operation;
- environmental inspection;
- hazardous environment/application operation;
- ecological observation; and,
- scientific research.
Ultimately, JAWSS goes where personnel cannot or where it would be hazardous or non-cost-effective to send them. It performs in the cold and in the rough in a simple to operate but effective manner.
