Durable, flexible and cost-effective flow-through AUMS (Autonomous Underway Measurement System) OceanPack especially for pCO₂ monitoring on ships (FerryBox) and mobile applications.:

• Complete, flexible and easy to maintain flow-through systems
• Flexible and open design
• Large or small and light-weight. The light-weight version allows operation on small vessels
• CO₂ tolerant debubbler: mBubbler^®
• SmartDI^® Datalogger
• NO setup required
• Quick and easy installation: connect power/data, water in + out – that’s all
• Less maintenance

Large, complete FerryBox underway system “OceanPack”. Almost all important parameters are included. Special features are: the automatic and sealed water sampler, the nutrient analysis system with an automatically cleaned filter, the meteorologic Top-Box and the dataserver with passenger display. This OceanPack system was designed to operate under extremely rough North-Sea conditions with very little maintenance.

“The instrumentation will greatly enhance the continuous oceanographic measurements made by the Belgica by taking advantage of the significant technological improvements since the design of the existing (salinity, temperature) systems.
It is quite simple: during navigation, sea water is pumped on board through a pipeline from the front of the ship. This water is automatically run through several instruments installed in one of the laboratories of the Belgica. Many parameters can now be measured continuously (salinity, temperature,…) including new important ecosystem parameters such as nitrate, phosphate, silicate, dissolved oxygen, CO₂, turbidity, alkalinity and phytoplankton pigments.
In addition, the new equipment allows automatic acquisition and preservation of 16 water samples, rendering Belgica operations significantly more efficient by reducing onboard human resources. Data will be available soon in near real-time via MUMM’s public web site and following quality control, from the Belgian Marine Data Centre
“

 (The Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models and the Scheldt estuary (MUMM), department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS))

Medium sized underway system OceanPack MK-2 with pCO₂ analyzer, expanded by optional sensors, datalogger and Top-Box for GPS, Meteorology and Telemetry.

Small, complete flow-through pCO₂ system OceanPack MK-2 with touch-panel, datalogger and spare room for optional sensors. For even smaller devices please check the OceanPack / RACE.

“The OceanPack is a very flexible solution: all kind of flow-through and atmospheric sensors can be connected and controlled, such as pH, Fluorescence or Radiation. SUBCTECH has experience in data transmission by satellite, which is a further option for the OceanPack”

 (M. Kramp, OceanoScientific workshop, LOCEAN – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

• Complete, handy, portable and easy to maintain “Underway” or “Lab” System
• Real auto-calibration feature included
• 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.)
• Optionally expandable through the RS-485 bus, e.g.to connect a Meteorology, vents, pumps or distant sensors
• Optional automatic cleaning procedure includes flagging of collected data
• Easy handling and intuitive design
• Automatic reports for interferences and initiation of diagnostic routines
• Optional GPS geo references for all data and position event control
• Optional online telemetry data transfer and alarm services

View OceanPack MK-2 PDF Specsheet

View OceanPack MK-3 PDF Specsheet

View Antenna GPS/GSM box PDF Specsheet

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 2005, the SolOcean One was designed as an OceanoScientific^® vessel and SubCtech’s OceanPack is one of its key elements. First offshore tests in 2009 with IFREMER, METEO-FRANCE and others were very successful.

Presentation on the OI’2010 in London: OceanoScientific – pCO2 measurements on racing yachts.

The OceanoScientific project” (change to SailingOne^® – SolOceans^® one-design Racing Yachts)

Read more: OceanPack / RACE