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First-of-its-kind data buoy launched as part of multi-million pound Smart Sound fleet

The culmination of two years detailed planning and development, a custom-built 8.5-metre-tall autonomous data buoy – featuring a set of onboard sensors found nowhere else in the world – has been launched by scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

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