Lander Lab
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International Fishing Devices perature, depth, salinity, dissolved gases, pH, and other parameters. (See Figure 4). Access and manipulate data through a single piece of software: Ruskin. Compatible
Flotation
Trawlworks : Distributors of At- with PCs and Macs, it is easy to install, simple to use, lantic Floats polyamide and handles deployment, download, and data display in deep sea ? shing ? oats. Available in various diameters, one place. some with lugs, others with center holes for mounting. Star-Oddi : Small, high (See Figure 3). The 15% glass-? lled polyamide 10-2100- performing loggers for aquatic environments. Sensors
NG provides 11.8-lbs of buoyancy to 2,100m. Rugged, measure temperature, depth (pressure), salinity (conduc- impact resistant. Chat with Steve Taber . sors are rated for hadal depths.
Deepwater Buoyancy : Man- Jasco : Autonomous Multi- ufacturers of syntactic foam in standard or custom shapes. channel Acoustic Recorder Generation 4 is a customiz- able, fully autonomous underwater sound and data re-
Connectors and Cables corder. The system comes with removable memory and
SubConn : They got very popular when Impulse and redeploy to depths up to 6700m as payload on an and SeaCon stopped selling to small customers, which ocean lander. Waveform Audio File Format (WAV) and made for some unexpected delivery problems. They have Comma-separated values (CSV) ? les are saved to Secure worked hard to correct those. Great quality. Drop a note Digital (SD) cards, directly readable by a computer. to Beto Campos . Sea-Bird Scienti? c : An
Dragon? sh Manufacturing : Rubber molded connectors, and custom cable as- enti? c delivers accurate and reliable CTDs, sensors, and semblies, low minimums, “high quality and expediency software that empower scientists to collect precise data in are our top priorities.” Contact Stan Logan . Unisense Scienti? c
Blue Trail Engineering : logger-mini-system/>: The Field DataLogger Mini Sys-
Cobalt underwater connectors, thrusters and other tech- tem is a self-recording in situ sensor package with deep nology for experimentalists and hobbyists. They built sea rating to 6,000 m and long battery life measure H2S, and deployed a solar powered ASV that traveled west O2, pH, Redox, H2, and NO. The Field DataLogger from California 13,322km across the Paci? c to Papua. Mini enables studies of unique analytes, including stud-
Awesome. ies utilizing fast responding sensors (seconds), giving the
South Bay Cable : Full-on custom opportunity to monitor and obtain unique data in a cost- cable shop with testing equipment including an Optical effective way.
Time-Domain Re? ectometer, Impedance Analyzer, High Mission Robotics : Custom elec-
Voltage Test Facility, Environmental Ovens, and Hydro- tronic and software solutions for unique marine ap- static Pressure Test facilities. Small cable runs are pos- plications. Mission Robotics leverages their marine EE sible. Many standard cable designs are in stock. expertise to offer reliable, rigorously-tested software and
Anekonnect : Cool subscription-based hardware products that work across a wide range of un- application for designing and diagramming underwater dersea vehicles. We understand the pain points of prod- cables. The company maintains a parts library of over uct development and have created solutions that will al- 10,000 pieces from pretty much everybody. low companies to focus on the big picture of growing and running their business.
Sensors and Electronics
RBR : small, compact, rugged, reli-
Samplers able, with options for shallow to very deep, that ? t in General Oceanics
hand-deployable landers. Instruments measure tem- com/>: Niskin bottles for water sampling and animal 46 September/October 2026
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