Ocean Cay, part of the Bimini islands in the western Bahamas, has been recently transformed from an industrial sand excavation site into an extraordinary marine reserve, with the aim to revitalize the surrounding marine life and be an unmissable attraction for tourists. The company responsible for the transformation is MSC Cruises, that now owns the island and considers it one of the best destinations in the Caribbean Sea.
Thanks to the cooperation with Wartsila APSS, Resinex has recently taken part in the Ocean Cay project and has made an important contribution to its success.
At the end of November 2019, 5 Resinex oceanographic buoys have been supplied to Wartsila APSS (with MSC as final client) and then installed around the entrance channel that leads to the port of Ocean Cay, where cruise ships bring every day thousands and thousands of tourists from all over the world.
Oceanographic buoy powered by solar panels and equipped with a current profiler that records the speed and direction of sea currents supplied to Wartsila for a project in the Bahamas
The buoys are powered by solar panels and equipped with a current profiler that collects speed and direction of the sea currents every meter over 10-meter water column. All this information is transmitted every 30 minutes from the buoys to onshore thanks to a radio telemetry system and then shared to the ship’s control rooms.
Additional meteorological measurements such as temperature, wind direction, wind speed, along with pressure and humidity of the air are performed on the lighthouse of the island and transmitted.
All these data allow to coordinate operations and manoeuvres of the ships in the best possible way, according to sea and weather conditions, preserving the safety of passengers and of the crew on board.
Installation works started at the end of November 2019 and were completed quickly, despite the bad weather conditions: the first cruise ship was moored at Ocean Cay on December 5.
Oceanographic buoy powered by solar panels and equipped with a current profiler that records the speed and direction of sea currents supplied to Wartsila for a project in the Bahamas
