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About Us
We are sophomores at Brien McMahon High School (BMHS) in Norwalk, Connecticut. We have experience building an ROV with our teacher Mr. LiPrad, and now are building our own miniboat, Booyah. We named our boat Booyah because we liked how it sounds like ‘buoy’. Our boat is painted red, which is different from our sister-ship M/B The Killer Whale, made from a different group. We hope our miniboat goes all over the world.
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May 2026: M/V Bermuda Islander Deploys Our Miniboats!
On May 18th, we took a field trip down to the The Bermuda International Shipping Company in Salem, New Jersey to tour the M/V Bermuda Islander. This is the cargo ship who will be deploying our miniboats! Our team’s boat, Booyah (red), is pictured on the right with our sister boat, The Killer Whale (black and white), on the left.
The next day on May 19, the two miniboats were launched together on the east side of the Gulf Stream. Thank you to the captain and crew of Bermuda Islander (BI) for setting another adventure out to sea for us all. This double launch marks BI‘s 19th and 20th miniboat deployment for Educational Passages, officially marking them the vessel with the most miniboat deployments of any other! Read more about all 20 deployments in our blog post: “Miniboats Launched by the M/V Bermuda Islander.”
Sensor Data
The boat has two tracking systems: 1. The main GPS reports to the map above, and 2. A student-installed secondary GPS tracks location, air and water temperature, orientation, and even has a camera, with the map below showing only the last 7 days of sensor data. Contact us for more information or access to the full dataset.
Her onboard camera caught her first day at sea:
Stay tuned for more updates!
