Submarines for Everyone

San Francisco Magazine Jessica Zack Marc Olivier Le Blanc A pair of Berkeley-based drone enthusiasts are chasing the next frontier in “citizen exploration”: the bay floor. Eric Stackpole fell in love with remote-operated vehicles, or ROVs, long before the current drone mania took hold. For kicks as an undergrad at San Jose State, Stackpole built a tele-robot that could remotely attend classes for him. In 2010, when he met his current business partner, David Lang, Stackpole was tinkering in h...