The Woods Hole Group and Chance Maritime Technologies have successfully completed an uninterrupted, 38-day, FAST Eddy Loop Current monitoring survey, 200nm offshore in the Gulf of America. This marks a record for diesel-powered, continuously cruising USV operations, transiting over 4,000 nautical miles nonstop.
Woods Hole Group’s automated FAST Eddy ocean current monitoring system, comprising Teledyne 75 kHz and 300 kHz Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs), was installed onto Chance Maritime’s Chance MC40 uncrewed surface vessel (USV).
Chance Maritime also developed an additional payload to carry and autonomously deploy Woods Hole Group FAR Horizon drifters at client-specified locations.
The entire mission was completed without stopping, refueling, or any other physical intervention, undertaking real-time current monitoring and deploying eight drifter buoys throughout the deployment.
The Woods Hole Group FAST (Fast Autonomous Survey Technology) Eddy System is a self-contained, real-time ocean current monitoring system.
Once on site, FAST Eddy continuously collects, processes,
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