Offshore Met-Ocean Systems and Moorings

Woods Hole Group provides Met-Ocean Systems for fixed and floating structures offshore and fixed onshore structures. We are able to develop a program of instrumentation to meet your specific data acquisition requirements. Woods Hole Group can install, maintain, and recover instrumentation around the world in waters from the near shore to full ocean depths. We separate ourselves from the competition by being able to provide in-depth analysis of the acquired data to allow sound engineering designs to be produced.

Capabilities

• Rig/Platform Based Real-Time Systems
• Moorings & Buoys
• Oceanographic Surveys/Cruises
• Deployment & Recovery Services

The ocean is 330 million cubic miles of water covering some 71 percent of the planet. This water is never at rest.

Wind moves the waves, and beneath the surface, discrete masses of water move at different speeds and depths. There are turbidity currents, which cause landslides underwater. Blizzard-like benthic storms at the seafloor. Deep-sea tides. Undersea cataracts that carry more water than any river in the world. Powerful eddies spawned by grand current systems.

Moving at 4 knots, such a ring of swirling water can violently shake an oil-drilling platform. It could capsize. The drill pipe could snap.