Design and antarctic testing of the Icefin vehicle

The Icefin vehicle is a novel, custom under-ice unmanned underwater vehicle. This vehicle was designed for polar sub-ice deployment and was deployed to McMurdo, Antarctica in November of 2014. An overview of the unique vehicle design is presented here, along with a summary of the deployment testing in Antarctica. Lessons learned from this deployment provided an opportunity for design improvements to the vehicle. An updated vehicle design is presented including the changes resulting from polar sub-ice field testing.