Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor (BASS)


This large tripod is actually just a skeleton to support many instruments including the Benthic Acoustic Stress Sensor. The tripods can actually vary in height from 10 to 20 feet or so. The BASS sensor measures current velocities and directions in the bottom 10 feet of the water column. When the tripod is deployed, there are usually many instruments from different universities measuring anything from temperature to taking images of the ocean bottom. "BASS deployments" as we call them, only occur during the summers because of their cost and use in studying summer upwellings.
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