Biofouling challenge
Top view of the OOI Oregon Offshore Shallow Profiler Mooring shows the difference between a new set of instruments (top), 8 years spent at 200m (center) & 1 year of biofouling (profiler pod at bottom). All sensors were swapped out over the last 24 hrs.
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Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF/V22.