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7/14/2025, 12:54:58 PM
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They are in fact used for that
>In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone deployed five vehicles equipped with "hurricane" wings to the tropical Atlantic Ocean to study air-sea heat exchange to better understand hurricane rapid intensification during the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. On September 30, 2021, SD 1045 became the first Saildrone Explorer to sail into a category 4 hurricane. It collected ocean data and video from inside Hurricane Sam where the sea state included 50-foot (15 m) waves and wind speeds reached over 120 mph (190 km/h).[41][42]
>The mission was continued in 2022-2024. During the 2024 hurricane season, the Saildrone fleet sailed 42,000 miles and spent 100 hours in sustained tropical storm winds, intercepting seven different tropical storms 16 times.[43]
They've also had them sail around the arctic and generally done a bunch of measuring.
I think they're really cool, love sailboats and this kind of thing makes a lot of sense to me if you want to have something that can exist and move around in the ocean for a long period of time.
They are in fact used for that
>In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone deployed five vehicles equipped with "hurricane" wings to the tropical Atlantic Ocean to study air-sea heat exchange to better understand hurricane rapid intensification during the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. On September 30, 2021, SD 1045 became the first Saildrone Explorer to sail into a category 4 hurricane. It collected ocean data and video from inside Hurricane Sam where the sea state included 50-foot (15 m) waves and wind speeds reached over 120 mph (190 km/h).[41][42]
>The mission was continued in 2022-2024. During the 2024 hurricane season, the Saildrone fleet sailed 42,000 miles and spent 100 hours in sustained tropical storm winds, intercepting seven different tropical storms 16 times.[43]
They've also had them sail around the arctic and generally done a bunch of measuring.
I think they're really cool, love sailboats and this kind of thing makes a lot of sense to me if you want to have something that can exist and move around in the ocean for a long period of time.
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