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Wave worries

Has everything gone to plan?

'We did have doubts when we watched the instruments being mounted on eight small yachts - yachts seem to spend as much time under water as on the top of it. But in fact the instruments have worked much better than we thought. Only one set has failed so far, and we've got a much better data feed than we expected.'



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Waves come crashing over the helm leaving the decks awash on Amer Sports Too - a serious test of the instruments, but not much chance of scientific data in this sort of weather
Waves come crashing over the helm leaving the decks awash on Amer Sports Too - a serious test of the instruments, but not much chance of scientific data in this sort of weather
Image: Amer Sports Too
    
 

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