SEATTLE—
The world of Jacques Cousteau can now be at your very fingertips -- thanks to an Everett-based underwater exploration company.A company called "OceanGate" is now offering you a chance to be at the controls of a very cool underwater research submarine.
It's called a Remotely Operated Vehicles, or ROV's, and today the company's founders showed us how it works in a tank at the University of Washington.
For a fee, the company offers you a chance to search Puget Sound for sunken shipwrecks and underwater sea life. They're looking for a few good "Citizen Scientists".
The money and your research will help local scientists.
"We train them on the equipment. We train them on flying the ROV's," said Guillermo Sohnlein, one of the company's co-founders. "We teach them a little bit about the science that's being conducted. And then we actually take them out, either on shore-based missions or on boat-based missions and they get to actively participate in the field research."
Operating the submersibles with the hand-held controls looks like a blast.
But it's also pretty spendy.
The outings cost from a $1,000 to $2,500 per person and can last one or two days.
To get more information on how to sign up, click on the link above.
