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Marine Science

Ocean Glider


Successful completion of Ocean Glider mission

CariCOOS, in collaboration with NOAA AOML, has successfully recovered two ocean gliders (a type of autonomous underwater vehicle or AUV) off the south coast of Puerto Rico after an extended mission in the Caribbean Sea. The oceanographic sections obtained by the vehicle will be used to refine predictions of hurricane intensity. Visual representations of the sections in addition to the underlying data are available at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/goos/gliders/observations.php