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The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the RMS Titanic in July 1986 and its engineering team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI will be honored July 14 with the 2006 GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering awardThe honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the Institutions second expedition to the wreck of Titanic nine months after the initial discovery by an unmanned towed camera system named Argo At the time the Deep Submergence Laboratory DSL at WHOI part of the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department was developing the dual vehicle ArgoJason system for deep ocean exploration Jason Jr was a prototype meant to test design concepts for the planned and much larger remotely operated vehicle ROV Jason which is controlled from the surface via a miles long cable