St. Petersburg, Fla. -- University of South Florida officials said an unmanned water vehicle that resembles a giant model plane was mistakenly plucked from the water by fishermen.
The officials said a fishing boat bearing St. Petersburg resident Adam Carr and friends Richard Hubbard and Chris Sanders were fishing Saturday afternoon when the Slocum glider, which measures water temperature and salinity and surfaces to transmit data, came to the top of the water 40 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Tuesday.
"It looked like an unmanned aircraft,'' Carr said. "We spun back around to see what it was.''
