{"id":20478,"date":"2012-04-12T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20478"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:26:58","slug":"diving-with-your-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/diving-with-your-ipad","title":{"rendered":"Diving With Your iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20480\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20480\" title=\"navy-researchers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/navy-researchers-250x166.jpg\" alt=\"navy researchers\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy researchers drop an iPad attached to a custom-built frame called the &quot;image Measurement Assembly for Subsurface Turbulence, or iMAST&quot; into the ocean near the Bahamas to perform an experiment in ocean optics. (Source: Naval Research Lab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Apple\u2019s iPads are not designed to be submerged  in water, but a Navy scientist found a way to use the tablet under the  ocean\u2019s surface as part of a recent optics experiment conducted by the  Naval Research Lab\u2019s (NRL\u2019s) Oceanography Divison.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the nature of their work at sea, the Navy and Marine Corps  constantly work to better understand ocean optics &#8212; or the behavior and  properties of light under the sea &#8212; to safely and effectively perform  functions such as hunting for undersea mines, engaging in dive  operations, and creating models for the performance of anti-submarine  activities.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the US military\u2019s interest to date in using tablets like the  iPad &#8212; such as with the Army\u2019s online mobile application store and  other initiatives &#8212; has been due to their ability to support custom  applications and networking capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s iPads are not designed to be submerged in water, but a Navy scientist found a way to use the tablet under the ocean\u2019s surface as part of a recent experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76,244,238,113],"class_list":["post-20478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-environment-2","tag-oil","tag-science","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}