APL Tests OOI Profiler Enhancements

As part of NSF’s Ocean Observing Initiative, the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Seattle, WA recently tested Profiler enhancements with McLane Software Engineer Cleo Zani on-site. The team exercised new adaptive profiling commands. Adaptive commands are transmitted between the MMP, an inductive communication and battery charging docking station at

McLane in Portugal: Vortice Lda.

McLane welcomes our new sales representative in Portugal, Vortice Lda. Founded in 1981, Vortice has extensive experience in oceanography and meteorology. The company is now Portugal's exclusive distributor of McLane products. McLane has sales representatives in the Americas (Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Asia/Oceana (India, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia), and Europe/ME (UK, Ireland, Middle East, Spain, Portugal, France, Russia, and Germany).
Customers from Germany, China and Norway recently completed instrument training at McLane facilities with our 15m test tank. Profiler and sampler training included mechanical, electronic and deployment programming components, and recovery/data offload procedures. If you own a McLane profiler or sampler or are thinking of purchasing from our product line, hands-on product

New pressure relief valve option

McLane now offers a pressure relief valve (PRV) upgrade to retrofit to all sampler controller housings for $400.00 (including installation by McLane but excluding shipping and insurance costs). The controller end-cap and anodizing must be in suitable condition for PRV retrofits. The anodized aluminum controller housing contains alkaline battery packs (which are not manufactured by
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