SUBS - Model B3
Streamlined Sub-Surface Buoys
 SUBS buoyancy significantly enhances data set quality from current meters, while decreasing buoy frontal area and drag coefficients.

  • Compare a Mooring with SUBS buoy flotation to one with spherical flotation.

  • Compare current meter Data using SUBS flotation vs spherical flotation.

  • Coastal Buoy - Picture and specifications of a Model B3 SUB .

BENEFITS of SUBS FLOTATION

    • Unmatched mooring stability provides the best in instrument platforms.
    • Virtually eliminates vortex shedding effects inherent in spherical floatation.
    • Eliminates the potential for the measurement errors due to mooring oscillation.
    • Substantially reduces mooring excursions and inclinations.
    • Significant improvement to depth keeping characteristics.
    • Self-compensating for mooring inclination and flow direction.
    • Reduced buoyancy requirement due to lower mooring frontal area.
    • Supplied complete with mooring tension/swivel hardware.
    • Economical as purchasers can use their own Viny or Glass floats.
    • Supplied complete with buoyancy or purchasers can utilize their own Floats.
See Distributors for a list of US and International Distributors and/or Agents.
Produced under licence from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography. US and Canadian patents pending. SUBS is a registered trademark of Fisheries & Oceans Canada.

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