ANCHORED PROFILING UNDERWATER OBSERVATORY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B63B22/00 G01V1/38 G01V3/00 G01V11/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: anchored profiling underwater observatory is linked with a control station and consists of: a subsurface buoy anchored by a steel buoy line which serves as the moving line for the profiling carrier, having a set of measuring sensors, a central microcontroller unit, an electric drive, and which moves on the moving line; a system for digital communication via a contactless inductive tap-in on the moving line, a surface buoy-guidepost with modems for transmission of data and telemetric information via a radio link, a hydroacoustic opening switch of the anchor ballast. On the moving line, over the hydroacoustic opening switch of the anchor ballast, there is a lower spherical buoy, having a modem for a hydroacoustic link inside it, an electric drive linked to a telescopic device, at the end of which a seismometer is mounted. The profiling carrier further includes sensors for determining content of hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, alpha-, beta- and gamma-radioactivity.

EFFECT: improved operating conditions, broader functional capabilities of the underwater observatory.

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