As Bat Week 2023 wraps up today on Halloween, Saildrone and Bat Conservation International had plenty to celebrate after the completion of our mission to collect bat sounds. The bat activity recorded by the saildrone will be studied by researchers at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)! 🦇 “Saildrone’s quiet platform has long been valued for underwater acoustic research, and we are thrilled to leverage it in this new way to help protect the world’s bat populations,” said Cristina Castillo, Saildrone S

Five Saildrone Explorers are deployed in the Atlantic Ocean to better understand the ocean processes that are occurring as hurricane intensity increases, which means collecting data immediately before and during a hurricane. Hurricane Sam was upgraded to a Category 4 storm by the National Weather Service as SD 1045 reached the storm. At the time the video was collected, the saildrone was experiencing winds gusting over 120 mph and 50-foot waves. The saildrones provide data directly to NOAA’s Pac