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User Testimonials

David Fitch

Communications Specialist, Great Lakes Observing System
“Most moored buoys in the Great Lakes require significant time and financial investment, a highly qualified team of technicians, scientists, and engineers, as well as mid-size vessels for deployments and retrievals. For this reason, several labs turned to small, lightweight, and relatively easy-to-deploy options, like Sofar Ocean’s Spotter buoy.”

Ivan Ivanov

Branch Director, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology
“We decided to use the Spotter wave buoys as part of the MASRI project for multiple reasons. The buoys are very affordable, small, lightweight and easy to maintain...The real-time access and included dashboard and API are very useful to keep an eye on the data. These advantages allowed us to deploy multiple buoys instead of one more expensive traditional buoy.”

Joe Schumacker

Marine Resources Scientist for the Quinault Indian Nation
“Until now, we have never had a lot of data assets out here on our coast. This information is going to be really critical to mitigate the impacts that occur from extreme weather events…[Spotters] give us data, and more data gives us more ability.”

Neil McLennan

Engineering Adviser, Lyttelton Port Company
“The purchase and operating cost of the Spotter is much lower than the large buoy so we are now using it as our primary offshore wave data source. We have purchased a second Spotter to allow them to be regularly swapped over while moorings are checked and biofouling removed.”