University of Victoria researchers are gathering data from depths never explored in an area off Canada’s west coast thanks to the deployment of new ocean monitoring devices.
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a UVic data-collecting facility, has launched five autonomous deep-sea Argo floats, which have garnered the nickname “droids of the deep.”
The cylindrical devices can collect vital ocean data while travelling up and down between the ocean’s surface and the seafloor.
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