As our first visit of the 2014 fieldwork of the SAMPHIRE the team had the chance to call into to the Scottish Association of Marine Science (SAMS) at Dunstaffnage, near Oban. There we met Dr John Howe, Senior Lecturer and John Beaton, Senior Oceanographic Technician. They will be partnering up with us in July to help local divers and historians investigate wrecks in the Firth of Lorn. We had the privilege to be given a tour of their facilities, including some state of the art underwater survey equipment they hold. Here John Beaton explains the workings of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) capable of very high resolution 3D data capture.