Logger Found at Bottom of The Atlantic and It Still Works
Robust Deep Water Monitoring Kit for deep sea monitoring.
Gemini Data Logger’s Tinytags are reliable and robust methods of measuring temperature in a variety of settings. Combined with the Deep Water Monitoring Kit, made from stainless steel and completely waterproof, Tinytags can easily monitor river and stream temperatures for a variety of conservation and environmental uses.
The loggers have also been used for deep sea monitoring where it is vital that the loggers are robust and can cope with increased sea pressures. Deep sea fishermen use Tinytag loggers to ensure they are in the correct position to catch certain types of temperature-sensitive fish.
However, one fisherman really did prove how robust the loggers are. The captain of fishing trawler M/S Geir was measuring temperatures using the Deep Water Logger Kit at a depth of 1650 metres in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Irish coast. They unfortunately lost one of their Deep Water Loggers, and assumed that they would never see it again. But they were wrong. A year and a half later the captain received a call from a Norwegian trawler who had found something in their net that looked like it had originated from the Geir. It was sent for calibration and further investigation to see whether any data could be recovered.
When the case was opened, the logger was completely intact, and even after being at the bottom of the Atlantic for such a long period of time, amazingly the data could still be accessed and was accurate. This is proof enough then that the Deep Water Loggers are incredibly robust. With the integration of Gemini’s new and improved Tinytag Talk 2 logger, which now provides improved graph readouts and more capacity for readings, the Deep Water Monitoring Kit is one of the most long lasting, robust data loggers around.
