Help a Noob out? Marine application of robotix

Have you looked at the pros and cons of bluetooth and re-establishing a network after getting out of range, plus it's limited range?

If you're saving your images to a card and not hoping to transmit them programming a micro over the air would be a suitable application for a zigbee module (like Xbees).

Have you mentioned what kind of range you hope to aquire? Is this a pool you're playing around in?