Missions
Explore the Sailbouy missions
Discover Sailbuoy missions worldwide – autonomous ocean data collection for climate, science, and industry, from the Arctic to the tropics.
Learn how Sailbuoy autonomous vessels helped Stockholm Resilience Centre scientists monitor fish stocks for over 100,000 seabirds in the Baltic Sea—using quiet, zero-emission technology to support critical seabird conservation research.
The first-ever unmanned surface vehicle to complete an Atlantic crossing. Deployed in Newfoundland, the Sailbouy travelled to Ireland, sailing a total of 5100 km to cover the 3000 km stretch—80 days at sea.
The Deep-C’s SailBuoy was launched on March 15, 2013, at approximately 11 nautical miles (nm) south of Cape San Blas. It was retrieved on June 15, 2013.
This mission was conducted by the Nansen Center in September 2013. The Sailbuoy was to keep a specified distance from the ice edge (around 40 km).
For 3 weeks in November 2012 a successful seatrial with the Sailbuoy was conducted in cooperation with the PLOCAN consortium.
In July 2011 a past Shetland conducted. The objective of this mission was to investigate the navigational accuracy in strong current conditions.
Extensive testing has been done in the fishing fields of north Norway showing good results. 1500 km was travelled, and 260 hours of echosounder data were collected.
This mission was conducted by CMR (Christian Michelsen Institute) in the summer of 2014. The SailBuoy’s objective was to investigate its performance in varying wind and current conditions.
Offshore Sensing conducted this mission in the summer of 2016. The mission objective of the SailBuoy was to investigate the Sailbuoy's performance as a wave buoy in summer conditions.