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BUOY AND PIER APPLICATIONS

3-meter buoy

Although originally designed to operate in a shipboard environment, the SeaKeeper 1000 TM has now been demonstrated to work successfully both on buoys and piers. On buoys and remote piers where there is only limited power available, typically from solar panels, the pump will be scheduled to start and stop upon demand to collect discreet samples rather than running continuously. For buoy applications SAIC, under contract to NOAA, has developed a micro-processor based low power controller. On Piers and buoys requiring a lift of more than several feet, a submerged pump will be employed with a lift capacity of about 2 gpm (8 l/m) to heights that may exceed 100 feet.

A custom housing for the submerged pump co-locates a Platinum thermometer and an electrical Anti Fouling Device (AFD) at the inlet to the pump. For buoy applications requiring a modest lift like the SeaKeeper 1000TM self priming 3 gpm (12 l/m) diaphragm pump is used in conjunction with a custom pickup arm with a thermometer and anti fouling device at the inlet.

Pictured is a 3 meter buoy equipped with low power instrument box.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew.
Marshall McLuhan (1964)

Some scientists estimate that more than a third of all human-produced CO2 has been absorbed by the oceans, which has dramatically increased the acidity of seawater. If CO2 emissions continue to rise as predicted in one scenario by the IPCC (spell out), by 2100 the oceans could become more acidic than they have been in ten million years, spelling disaster for corals and crustaceans.

 
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