Last year, engineering student Jákup Jógvansson Clementsen approached Havstovan to ask whether the institute had a project suitable for his bachelor’s thesis. Havstovan had, for several years, kept a scale model of the research vessel Jákup Sverri with the idea of one day deploying it using modern drone technology as a research platform for conducting echo-sounder surveys close to shore, in fjords, and in narrow channels. To move this idea forward, a project brief was develop