Gulf of America

Saildrone mapped 90,000 square kilometers of seafloor, supporting fisheries management, offshore energy planning, resource exploration, strengthening maritime security, and protecting fragile habitats.

Two Saildrone Voyager USVs have launched for the first time from St. Petersburg to map Florida’s coastal waters, supporting coastal resilience and emergency response.

NOAA and Saildrone’s 4th annual hurricane mission collected 768 days of data over 27,000 nautical miles sailed with 16 hurricane intercepts.

New this year: Two Saildrone USVs will collect data on CO2 exchanged between the ocean and the atmosphere during hurricane events.

Two Saildrone Explorers are collecting data in the Gulf of Mexico to mitigate a weather buoy outage.

Saildrone and NOAA are launching seven wind-powered ocean drones to collect data inside hurricanes in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Saildrone is one of several science and defense-oriented companies located at the St. Petersburg Innovation District’s new Maritime and Defense Technology Hub.

Saildrone partnered with the University of Southern Mississippi and NOAA to complete our first shallow-water multibeam bathymetry mission in the Gulf of Mexico.

Saildrone helped ECOGIG consortium researchers understand the effects of wind and current on natural oil slicks and their larger impact on the Gulf ecosystem.