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A typical deep-sea mooring design sketch for a mooring deployment in 4000 m water depth. Instrument design depths are shown in dark red. The acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) is mounted in the main buoyancy body at 300 m. It looks upward and covers the upper 250 - 300 m of the water column with a resolution of one reading every 8 m. The first recording current meter (RCM) is placed at 320 m, followed by more recording current meters at regular intervals. Additional buoyancy, shown as yellow clusters of small buoys, is placed above each RCM to compensate its weight in water. Above the anchor weight is an acoustic release (ACR) which, when triggered, severs the connection to the anchor weight so that the mooring floats to the surface. |
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