{"id":243998,"date":"2026-09-13T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/an-18-7-foot-drone-boat-has-brought-back-its-first-seabed-maps-for-an-italian-survey-crew"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:03:33","slug":"an-18-7-foot-drone-boat-has-brought-back-its-first-seabed-maps-for-an-italian-survey-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/an-18-7-foot-drone-boat-has-brought-back-its-first-seabed-maps-for-an-italian-survey-crew","title":{"rendered":"An 18.7-foot drone boat has brought back its first seabed maps for an Italian survey crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-18-7-foot-drone-boat-has-brought-back-its-first-seabed-maps-for-an-italian-survey-crew.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So companies have spent the last few years shrinking the boat and leaving the people on the beach. Most of the ones that reach the news are military, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autonocion.com\/us\/17-foot-drone-boat-sealed-bay-two-weeks\/\">17-foot aluminum drone boat that ran two weeks of a Navy electronic warfare exercise in Michigan<\/a>. This one\u2019s a commercial survey boat, which is a duller job and, I\u2019d argue, a much bigger market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So companies have spent the last few years shrinking the boat and leaving the people on the beach. Most of the ones that reach the news are military, like the 17-foot aluminum drone boat that ran two weeks of a Navy electronic warfare exercise in Michigan. This one\u2019s a commercial survey boat, which is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-mapping","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}