Saildrone

Watch: World’s First Ocean Drone Captures Video From Inside A Category 4 Hurricane

NOAA Research Image of Saildrone sailing through category 4 storm

Saildrone Inc. and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have released the first video footage gathered by an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) from inside a major hurricane barreling across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 was directed into the midst of Hurricane Sam, which is currently on a path that fortunately will miss the US East Coast. SD 1045 is battling 50-foot waves and winds of over 120 mph to collect critical scientific data and, in the process, is...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/watch-worlds-first-ocean-drone-captures-video-from-inside-a-category-4-hurricane/

VESSEL REVIEW | Saildrone Surveyor – Long-endurance seabed mapping drone powered by wind and solar energy

US-based technology company Saildrone has developed a new 72-foot (22-metre), 14-ton (12.7-tonne) unmanned surface vehicle (USV) powered by wind and solar energy. Saildro ..

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/specialised-fields/unmanned-craft-non-naval/vessel-review-saildrone-surveyor-long-endurance-seabed-mapping-drone-powered-by-wind-and-solar-energy/

How Ocean Monitoring Technologies Can Reduce Oil Spill Effects

Many new autonomous ocean technologies have emerged in the last ten years, such as Liquid Robotic's Wave Glider, seen here.

A month and a half of the Mauritius Disaster, the role of Saildrones in helping future oil spills and marine disaster is becoming clear, writes Nishan Degnarain in his Forbes article.

The Gravity of the Situation

It has been 43 days since the Wakashio grounding and there is growing anger on the ground at the state of affairs in Mauritius. Restrictions have now been placed along the entire 32km of Mauritius’ East Coast impacted by the oil spill.

Mysterious dark substances were detected this weekend...

https://mfame.guru/new-age-ocean-monitoring-technologies-mauritius-oil-spill-disaster/

Sailing Drone Completes World’s First Autonomous Circumnavigation Of Antarctica

Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide

Image Credit: noaa.gov

It was an audacious idea: To send an unmanned saildrone on a 13,670-nautical-mile journey around Antarctica alone, at the mercy of the most hostile seas on the planet. In winter.

“The assumption was the Southern Ocean would eat the saildrone … and that would be that,” said NOAA oceanographer Adrienne Sutton. “But we were willing to try, given the large role the ocean plays in the trajectory of climate change. Getting the Southern Ocean’s carbon balance right is urgently...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/sailing-drone-completes-worlds-first-autonomous-circumnavigation-of-antarctica/

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