Submarine Exploring Lake Tahoe Earthquake Fault has Motor Problems
From the Los Angeles Times:
“An unmanned submarine set to dive more than 1,000 feet to scour the bottom of Lake Tahoe didn’t quite make it all the way. …
“The 28-foot-long, 2,200-pound submarine, designed to explore beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica, was diving Lake Tahoe in its first test run. [Gordon] Seitz [of the California Geological Survey] and his team hoped to capture valuable data and high-definition images of an earthquake fault along the lake’s bottom that scientists have wondered about for years.”
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