Unmanned SailBuoy vessel shows mettle in two-month Gulf of Mexico journey
From two months in 2013, an unmanned ocean vessel developed among the fjords and sounds of Norway sailed among the oil rigs and open water of the Gulf of Mexico. A recently published study details the SailBuoy’s 2,400-kilometer journey.
Bergen, Norway-based CMR Instrumentation’s SailBuoy is a wind-propelled sensor platform designed to handle extended ocean deployments. The vessel, which looks something like a surfboard with a sail the size of an open pizza box, uses satellite communications to relay data from its sensor load and accept navigational commands from on shore.
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