Measuring and testing – Meteorology – Electric disturbance
Patent
1987-04-30
1988-10-18
Ruehl, Charles A.
Measuring and testing
Meteorology
Electric disturbance
441 2, 73292, G01W 100, B63B 2220
Patent
active
047778199
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for making depth related measurements from an untethered, gravity driven oceanographic platform. The platform is a smooth streamlined, torpedo shaped body releasably carrying ballast in its nose and covered with syntactic foam for buoyancy. At the appropriate depth, the ballast is released and the body ascends under control of an interferometric homing system which guides it to a recovery vessel. The ballast may be an iron slug held in place electromagnetically.
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Bradley Albert M.
Hoyt Joshua K.
Brunell Norman E.
Ruehl Charles A.
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