Southern Ocean

Waves play a critical role in the health of the world ocean ecosystem.

During the 2019 Antarctic Circumnavigation, Saildrone is taking critical measurements of Earth’s only circumpolar current.

Just how variable is CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean in winter?

60+ knot gusts and massive breaking waves? That’s just a typical day in the Southern Ocean.

Two centuries after the Belgica expedition became the first to survive a winter in Antarctica, Saildrone launched the first autonomous circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean.

Two Saildrone USVs launched from Bluff, NZ, January 2019. Their mission: the first autonomous circumnavigation of Antarctica.

Today we are announcing an important development: Sending our first fleet of saildrones into the Southern Ocean, in partnership with CSIRO, Australia’s pre-eminent national science organization.

In January 2019, two saildrones departed New Zealand on an epic journey.