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Credit: Derek Buffitt © WHOI.

Credit: Derek Buffitt © WHOI.

Credit: Derek Buffitt © WHOI.

Credit: Derek Buffitt © WHOI.

Don Peters and Kris Newhall measure the dry weight and verify the stability of the Shallow Water Mooring (SWM) buoy. The SWM design developed by WHOI Principal Engineer Don Peters, when combined with the Prawler profiling vehicle and instruments on the buoy hull, will be able to sample the upper 80% of the water column.