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I can't even imagine

how hard that must be.

All right, there. One down, 31 to go!

Come on, buddy, get up.

Oscar, I know

it's not the uniform you wanted to wear.

But you're a team

and I wanted you to look like one.

I'm proud of you. I love you. Karla.

Hey, buddy. Hey, here!

Hey! I'm up!

Welcome, everyone, to the Fifth

Annual Underwater ROV championship!

Gathered here today

are some of the best and brightest

from 32 schools and 17states!

At the bottom of this pool

lies Mystery Reef

where a World War II sub

has been lodged for 50 years.

Each team will conduct

an eight-part mission with tasks

worth between five and 15 points

for a total of 100 points.

Now, every time you hear this...

A team has successfully

completed a task.

But if you hear this...

Not so successful.

But with any luck, when time is up

they've made it onto our leader board.

Now, remember, this mission test

is worth 70% of the final score.

Which leaves 30% for the oral

questioning with our judges.

Here we go, folks.

Let's get to the first team.

Mission order has been randomly selected,

and the first school up is,

Virginia Tech.

With 15 minutes on the clock,

your time starts now.

It's worth noting that teams

are allowed to come back to any task

that they might have missed

the first time around.

Now, all the tasks down there

can be completed in any order

except the first one.

Opening the hatch.

Teams must complete

that first task within 60 seconds.

If they fail to do so,

then a diver will be forced

to do it for them for a five point loss.

Yes!

And we're off! That's five points.

Ten more points.

And five more points.

This bar is going to be set high.

That's all right.

Don't let it rattle you.

They did the first three things, like,

in two minutes!

One minute and 42 seconds.

Maybe it's not that hard.

Next up is Cornell University.

Give us more tether!

It's not helping.

Next up, Duke University.

Stanford!

Florida!

Now, ladies and gentlemen,

the reigning champs, MIT!

- What's that?

- School full of hims.

Last year, they doubled the score

of their closest competitor.

Wow! This year, MIT has incorporated

modularity into their design.

What an elegant way for them to access

all their different components.

And you may begin now.

A quick five points for MIT!

That's another 10 points!

It's the quickest pace we've seen yet.

Do you remember when I said that this

division would be less embarrassing for us?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, maybe next time,

you shouldn't listen to me.

What are they doing?

This is interesting.

They seem to be

bypassing two tasks entirely.

If that's a strategy, it's a strange one

to go that far off course

and then have to double back.

Activate the dual lasers.

That's what you get for doubting

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

At this point, the only question

seems to be

how fast they'll complete the tasks.

That makes 70!

Engage the LED floods on my count.

Three, two, one.

That's 85 points.

They've taken over first place, people!

Just one task away now

from a perfect score.

Remember, there's the oral questioning.

You can make up the ground there

if you need to.

English isn't even our first language.

Additional tether, please.

Hang on here a moment.

Looks like MIT has run

into some trouble.

They appear to be caught,

putting their cage out of reach.

Wow! MIT has determined

the final task to be impossible.

So, with six minutes left,

they're stopping!

But they've still taken

the lead with 85 points.

Let's see if that score holds up

with our final team,

- Carl Hayden Community High School.

- Let's go, guys, all right!

Carl Hayden?

Okay, guy, come on!

Stay focused and work together, okay?

Carl Hayden, your time starts now.

All right, Luis, drop Stinky.

Okay, guys. We got this.

All right, going straight ahead.

Three meters down.

Okay, controllers are reliable now.

Okay, but we gotta move fast.

They're only giving us 60 seconds

for the first task.

I got no problem with fast.

Steady.

Come on. Come on!

It looks as though Carl Hayden

is having a difficult time

with the very first task.

Guys, we can still make it.

We still can. Come on.

Man, get out of there, dude.

We're not gonna need you.

Not a very promising start

for this young team.

- Come on!

- We still can, come on.

Focus, focus.

Ten seconds!

They're out of time!

There goes the diver to open the hatch.

That's a five point loss.

But, you know, Ken, isn't it a win

just to get on the course at all?

Guys, it's only five points.

There are 95 more in there.

Hey, enough with the red light.

Turn it off.

- Come on, come on.

- Okay, Lorenzo,

I'm going three degrees down.

- Could you be more exact?

- 2.73 degrees.

- Steady, steady.

- Clamp! Clamp!

Come on. Just a little more.

We got it! Yes! Yes!

Correct! That's 10 points

for Carl Hayden.

There you go!

Steady.

All right, easy, easy, easy!

Grab it!

There's half the task, folks.

Let's see if they can complete

the second half for a full 10 points.

- Pick it up!

- We got this.

Come on!

Just forget the bell.

We'll come back for it.

Time to go recover the Enigma.

Looks like they're bypassing

the second part, folks.

That's another five point loss.

But they did get those first 5 points,

so they're up to 20 points.

Five points ain't nothing.

Watch yourself.

- Steady, stay steady!

- I'm gonna fix it.

Go! Yes!

I love that sound.

And Carl Hayden has another 10 points.

That's 30, with half

of the course still to go.

You hear that? It's halftime, boys.

Let's finish strong.

There they go, toward the hard stuff.

Come on, Stinky, get it on there.

Drop it steady.

Easy! Easy!

Come on, there we go, there we go.

Come on! Come on!

Steady, yes, yes!

There we go. There we go.

All right, guys.

How far are we from the back wall?

Well, if we knew,

we wouldn't have to measure it.

Well, we need to be careful

not to because...

- Wait, hold on! Is it broken?

- No, look, it's still on.

Easy, easy.

Analog.

Another 15 points for Carl Hayden!

That's 45 points.

All right, Lorenzo, toggle to the camera

near the thermometer.

And it looks like

it's one meter down and 15 degrees left.

Guys, we need to remove the blue wire.

That light one

probably isn't blue, right?

We should've sprang for a color monitor.

It's 50-50. Which one do you like?

That one.

No, no, no, wait!

That one! That one! That one!

They disconnected the wrong wire!

That's a 15 point loss.

- Damn it! Sorry, guys.

- We got time left?

- Let's go get the bell.

- Wait, isn't there one more thing?

- Whatever's in the cave.

- All right! Let's go do it.

Oscar? Nobody else got it!

MIT said it was impossible.

Good thing we're dumb high school kids

who don't get that.

Okay! Based on what we already did,

the process of elimination means

the task inside is extracting the liquid.

Just a little more tether!

Luis, more tether!

We got this! We got this!

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