Contract for open ocean gliders

摘要

Teledyne Webb Research, USA, has announced it has been selected to provide open ocean gliders for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The contract follows closely on the recent award to Teledyne Webb Research of the Coastal Glider programme for the OOI. The open ocean Slocum G2 gliders will support the high-latitude global arrays of the OOI. Similar to the Coastal Glider programme, this second contract also includes a prototype vehicle to be delivered this year that will incorporate the specific sensor requirements of the Open Ocean programme. The initial contract also includes an option to purchase up to 24 open ocean gliders. Teledyne Webb Research was chosen by the US Consortium for Ocean Leadership and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), USA, to provide the gliders for this project, which is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).