OSIL Data Buoy Weathers the Storm

In 2008 OSIL (Ocean Scientific International Limited) supplied the Countryside Council for Wales with a data collection system, the platform for which is an OSIL Shearwater Data Buoy. Since 2008, the Buoy and YSI 6600 Sonde have been regularly withstanding 75mph winds and 4m waves to collect temperature, salinity, DO, Chlorophyll and turbidity data on an hourly basis. Dr Richard Wiliams, Managing director of OSIL, comments ‘The Shearwater Buoy is a solid basis for our Data Buoy programme, and our systems work is now covered by our ISO 9000:2001 scope’.