Archive for September 21, 2021
The SALPs are coming back to life!
We have been refurbishing three Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms (SALPs) in order to autonomously deploy surface drifters and profiling floats over the course of months. The SALPs consist of a steel-frame cylinder about ~1 m in diameter and ~2 m high that store drifters and/or floats at a fixed mooring site and release the…
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