With Rick Trask, Research Specialist, Physical Oceanography Department
Oceanographers frequently want to make measurements from a single location in the ocean for a year or more. But it is prohibitively expensive for a ship to remain in remote locations making measurements for such a long time. Instead they use mooring structures, often miles long and designed to withstand the wind, waves and corrosive ocean environment, that sit on the ocean floor unattended. Learn how WHOI engineers and technicians design and build these platforms and assemble them at sea for deployment. Get the inside story of how the tiniest of details can make the difference between success and failure.
