The OceanoScientific^® Programme was imagined by Yvan Griboval, CEO of SailingOne Inc., in 2005. The first aim was to provide the international scientific community free of charge with scientific data collected on ocean racing yachts.
The OceanoScientific^® System is suitable for cramped spaces and extremely rough conditions as an underway acquisition platform for ocean data such as pCO₂.

The OceanoScientific^® System is recognised by Pôle Mer Bretagne.

  General Dossier OceanoScientific Programme

  Revue de l’Electricité et de l’Electronique (REE) – Publication from trials 

Datasheet: the complete pCO₂ family

 The OceanoScientific^® Programme Blog  (change to OSC )

 IFREMER: Programme OceanoScientific^®  (change to IFREMER)

 Pôle Mer Bretagne: OSC System   (change to Pôle Mer Bretagne)

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  “Your device is definitely awesome, and I’m absolutely delighted.”  

Jérôme Chladek, Scientist at Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Hamburg.

“Our Yacht designs do not permit the installation of a usual flow-through systems (like Ferryboxes) for several reasons:

• Performance and speed capacity of the design in changing offshore conditions.
• Intake close to the surface, with lots of bubbles in the seawater.
• Limited weight and size conditions.
• Limited electric energy.
• Low flow-rate.

The development and maintenance of the system with its debubbler, flow-meter, filter and pump required assistance.

The SubCtech technology is exactly the system we were looking for.”

Martin Kramp, Project Manager SailingOne, Oceanology International 2010 Conference

• Complete, handy, portable and easy to maintain pCO₂ flow-through sensor (Patent pending) with Li-Cor analyzer
• Interfaces for many standard oceanographic sensors such as dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Chlorophyll, Salinity, pH etc.
• Real auto-calibration feature
• Robust, versatile and compact housing
• GPS geo references for all data and position event control
• Easy integration of instruments through SmartDI^® data management system. Allows multiple simultaneous connections using a wide range of serial interfaces (AADI Aanderaa, BBE, LI-COR, SBE Seabird, Sea&Sun, SYSTEA Nutrient, TriOS algae monitor, Turner, Seapoint; WetLabs etc.)
• Optional pCO₂tolerant mBubbler^® Debubbler for ships, buoys and yachts
• Online real-time data transfer NMEA-0183 ASCII

OceanoScientific^®: pCO₂ on Racing Yachts

Worldwide and transatlantic sailing races are unique opportunities to regularly collect and transmit scientific data of the ocean to atmosphere interface from rarely explored areas, but usually racing yachts are a difficult platform for the deployment of the necessary instruments. Since its origin in 2006, SubCtech’s technology is one of the OceanoScientific^® Programme key elements. First offshore trials in 2009 with IFREMER, METEO-FRANCE and others were very successful.

Scientists’ comments:

“The scientific data collected by SolOceans One-designs from OceanoScientific^® Campaign will represent a significant contribution to the already existing observation network. This approach will open the way to the participation of new communities in the observation of our Earth.”

Jacqueline Boutin, researcher at LOCEAN (Oceanography and climate Laboratory), and Fabienne Gaillard confirmed.

“The OceanoScientific^® System gives access to high-quality sea surface salinity measures. Those measures are not accessible to standard scientific vessels or commercial vessels doing similar measures “,

Fabienne Gaillard explained at the end of the first series of tests by the OceanoScientific^®Kit in the Iroise Sea in October 2009.

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