Jean-Olivier Dalphond and Garry Fletcher listen to the diver Ryan Murphy, (PC Year 26) as he tests out the DIVELINK system from underwater at Race Rocks. We were able to add this underwater sound ( which is carried by sonar – up to 50 meters underwater) to live webcasts by the end of the term in April 2001.
Daily Archives: Sunday,March 25, 2001
Webcast to Conference in New York from underwater Race Rocks
During a presentation to the ETC conference at the United Nations School in New York in the spring of 2001, we tried out the underwater audio link from DIVELINK . An audio signal is relayed by SONAR for Ryan to a receiver near the docks. This receiver was connected to the audio input on the G3 laptop computer and to the shore tender as well. Both voices could be carried by the Sorenson Broadcaster first by wireless AirPort and then onto the internet. In this way we were able to communicate from underwater in the Pacific Ocean live by internet to the Altlantic coast. In this video, Ryan Murphy, a student at Pearson College, operates the device and the camera was operated by Jean-Olivier Dalphond, also a student at the college.