What specific assignments do you expect it to be used for and what is a realistic timescale?

Artifacts have been found at more than 250 points under the West Sea of Korea. However, only 20 of them have been excavated due to the harsh environment of current, low temperature, high turbid and depth. Though there have been many trials with ROVs for exploration in the area, underwater archaeology specialists never get results due to the high current and high turbidity.

Crabster's mission will be seafloor exploration for scientific research such as marine geology, biology, and archeology. We suppose CR200 conducts seabed mapping, survey and inspection of wreck, pipeline, scouring, waste, ecosystem and pollution in off the coast down to 200m depth. CR200 will help divers or work instead of them in harsh environment with high current, deep, turbid and low temperature. It also could assist in locating underwater resources, carrying out underwater mining, responding to oil spill incidents

We will conduct a tank test with CR200 in the first week of April (next week) in Daejeon. We will check the current-enduring ability of CR200. In May 2014, we will go to West Sea of Korea for the first mission of CR200. The mission will be excavation of ancient artifacts by cooperating with marine archaeologists. CR200 will do precise seafloor mapping of the turbid area with acoustic equipment. We will also try a number of possibilities of CR200’s role for underwater excavation.