Ocean Innovations

The 2020 Walter Munk Annual Lecture celebrating the founding director of IGPP. This year's preseter Larry Mayer, from the University of New Hampshire is the Oceanography Society's 2020 Walter Munk Medal awardee. Dr. Mayer will present "Ocean Mapping: The Quest to Make the Ocean Transparent. https://igpp.ucsd.edu/walter-munk-memorial-lecture Lecture October 19 2020, 1:00-2:00 pm, Pacific Time... Social Hour 2:00-3:00 pm Register in advance for the Zoom webinar: https://ucsd.zoom.us/web/register/WN_8w0knhpgQj23SdnbGWmh-w Date: Oct 19 2020 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Ocean Instruments (Shawn Hinz) takes delivery of a new winch loaded with over 9000 meters of steel armored electo-optical cable. https://ocean-innovations.net/companies/ocean-instruments/

SubConn High Frequency Coax Connectors https://ocean-innovations.net//subconn/subconn-coax-series/

Bellamare's garage kept busy during the stay at home orders! Charles Cousin of Bellamare finished the assembly of a small tow-sled for the University of Georgia. It will be used to study plankton, thanks to its shadowgraph imager. The sled will also carry a Seabird FastCAT CTD, a fluorometer, and a dissolved oxygen sensor from Aandera. For navigation, Bellamare provides their own shallow-water NavBox, a novel 4-in-1 instrument which has relative speed, pitch and roll information and uses the Blue Robotics depth and altimeter sensors. The sled has its own davit hoist, with a motorized cable reel that can be computer controlled. The davit frame is sized so it can be installed on "small" coastal boats. All data and images can be viewed real-time and logged topside. Another great custom project using Bellamare's small tow sled offering!

Research and development engineers Michael Cassen (left) and Kyle Grindley demonstrate mounting CTD (conductivity, temperature, and depth) sensors on a batch of Deep SOLO autonomous floats being prepared by Scripps's Instrument Development Group for deployment at the end of the year. The Deep SOLO floats utilize Vitrovex glass sphere pressure housings provided by Ocean Innovations. The floats can descend to depths up to 6,000 meters (20,000 feet), tripling the range of the first generation of floats in the global Argo network. Deep Argo's science goals are to measure the amount of heat stored in the deep ocean, to improve the understanding of regional and global sea-level change, and to provide systematic estimates of the deep and abyssal ocean circulation.

Come see us at Oceans 2019 in Seattle! Booth 404. Brock Rosenthal will be providing free surf lessons...

Here is a sneak peak of a new tow fish under construction by Bellamare. At the front end is a proprietary plankton imaging system. By using shadowgraph imaging the entire volume of water between the two pressure housing will be in focus rather than just a thin sheet area. Ocean Innovations provided environmental sensors and underwater connectors. https://ocean-innovations.net/companies/bellamare/

NIWC (formerly SPAWAR) crawling robot operates on land or underwater, sporting SubConn connectors and Falmat cable supplied by Ocean Innovations.

Operating in complex environments presents challenges, the SRV-8 #ROV makes it easy. With RJE’s exclusive 8 thruster DVC (dynamic vector control) and advanced programming, the SRV-8 is easily manipulated in most current conditions and #underwater environments. This battery-operated underwater #drone gives you up to 6 hours of mission time on a single charge and is depth rated at 305 meters, giving you the confidence you need to accomplish any task. Learning to fly the SRV-8 is simple and takes 3 minutes or less to set-up and deploy. The standard Xbox joystick controller allows for intuitive operation for any #marineprofessional. Visit https://ocean-innovations.net/companies/rje-oceanbotics/ for more info.