Development of a 10-m diesel powered life support and communications buoy for the Aquarius 2000 habitat

The development of an unmanned automated life support communications and telemetry buoy designed to support a manned subsea habitat is described. The six-man habitat was originally built as the George Bond Habitat intended for deployment off Catalina Island, California. Renamed the habitat has been operated by NOAA's National Undersea Research Program (NURP) off SI. Croix, US VI from May 1987 to December 1990, then off the coast of Key Largo, Florida from April 1993 to September 1996.

This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at Marine Technology Society, 5565 Sterrett Place, Suite 108, Columbia, MD 21044 USA (http://www.mtsociety.org) and may be cited as: Clark, A. M., & Venezia, W. A. (1998). Development of a 10-m diesel powered life support and communications buoy for the Aquarius 2000 habitat. In OCC '98 proceedings: The Marine Technology Society Annual Conference; Ocean Community Conference '98, November 16-19 1998, Baltimore Convention Center. (pp. 962-972). Washington, D.C.: Marine Technology Society.

Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1273.