We’ve all seen the devastating images and videos of lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano. Neighborhoods have been destroyed, the Kapoho Bay is now filled with lava, and the shape of the Hawaii Island has changed permanently. As a company with roots on the Island, our thoughts are with the …Read more
Mission Operations: Rising to the Challenge
May 17, 2018
Our Mission Operations Field Engineers have traveled the world over to send Wave Gliders on voyages from small villages north of the Arctic Circle, to islands infamous for crew mutiny, to the white shark patrolled waters off South Africa. Here, we share three missions that required rising to the challenge …Read more
Video: The Essential Communications Gateway
March 29, 2018
The ocean is filled with data. But radio waves don’t travel well underwater. And underwater acoustics require a relay at the surface. So how can you get the data you need in a safe, cost-effective way? Unmanned systems are the answer. In this video, see how the Wave Glider can: …Read more
Ten Years of Wave Glider Operations: A Persistent Effort
December 14, 2017
Through ten years of operations and hundreds of customer deployments, we’ve learned a lot. This year at OCEANS ‘17, our Science and Research lead Ryan Carlon presented the paper, Ten Years of Wave Glider Operations: A Persistent Effort. In the paper, he and co-author Justin Manley explore the lessons learned …Read more
The Next Generation Wave Glider
September 7, 2017
Today we announced a new version of the Wave Glider. Here I’ll cover what’s new with this release, and what it means for our customers’ missions. First, a bit of context. Since the Wave Glider SV3 was announced in 2013, we’ve completed hundreds of customer missions. The ocean is an …Read more
