Tested to operate in total safety to a level of 500 meters below sea level, two deep water buoys were delivered this Autumn to the University of Azores.
The two buoys were ordered by the Oceanographic and Fish department of the said University and are positioned off Ponta Delgada in the island of San Miguel as a support for its study of ocean currents and fish movements in the area. They are two floats formed by an external shell in polyethylene rotationally moulded filled with syntactic foam capable of resisting at great depths. Both buoys are vertically crossed by a steel bar.
The bigger one measures 1.2 meters in diameter by 1.24 meters in height and has a swivel type hook for every extremity that can become 1.75 high (produces 745 kilos if net buoyancy).
The other, 1.15 meters in diameter by 1.15 meters in height, which in its upper part can accommodate a sensor, generates a net buoyancy of 710 kilos.
