Designing and building ocean landers is simplified by close collaboration with a stratum of key suppliers whose products meet the challenges of the deep sea.
Herewith we highlight some of our favorites.
Figure 1. The Edgetech Burnwire Acoustic Release Transponder (BART) board provides up to 5 burnwire release commands, or 4 burnwire release commands plus a command-on and command-off to a single pin. The board has reliably received commands at the bottom of the Mariana Trench/Challenger Deep. (Photo courtesy of Rob Morris, Edgetech.)Figure 1. The Edgetech Burnwire Acoustic Release Transponder (BART) board provides up to 5 burnwire release commands, or 4 burnwire release commands plus a command-on and command-off to a single pin. The board has reliably received commands at the bottom of the Mariana Trench/Challenger Deep. (Photo courtesy of Rob Morris, Edgetech.)