Safer Seas 2011, Brest, France

Clearwater Instrumentation will be attending the Safer Seas 2011 conference in Brest, France, which runs from May 10-13. Clearwater’s Gary Williams will be presenting a paper titled “A Second-Generation Self Locating Data Marker Buoy” (PDF link) at the 4th International Workshop on Technologies for Search And Rescue and Other Emergency Marine Operations.

Our abstract describes why we’re so excited about our second-generation SLDMB: “Working from this refined set of specifications for the second generation SLDMB, we have solved the challenges of reducing the drifter physical size and achieved air deployment from an A-size sonobuoy tube with a novel deployment system that has been successfully demonstrated in trials at sea and air with nearly a 100% return of drift data on schedule by Iridium SBD.”

If you’re attending, please find us and say hello!