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the need to service and calibrate instrumentation. In the coastal environment where biofouling can be
extreme the cost of retrieving, refurbishing, and replacing instruments is only exceeded by the cost of
unreportable data due to poor data quality. In that respect, the ACT results are similar to the results our
users have found in the thousands of deployments they have conducted. In fact the ACT results
underrepresent the full capabilities of our sensors. While ACT states in Figure 6 that “comparisons were
limited to one month as a representation of a typical field deployment” our users typically conduct 90
day deployments and can, in ocean environments, achieve deployments up to one year.
Nichole Halsey
Director of Product Management, SBC
Sea-Bird Scientific