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UNDERWATER GLIDER [1 record]

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Record 1 2016-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Underwater Navigation Equipment
  • Oceanography
CONT

Underwater gliders are buoyancy-driven devices; they alternately reduce and expand displaced volume to dive and climb through the ocean.

PHR

underwater acoustic glider

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de navigation sous-marine
  • Océanographie
CONT

Les planeurs sous‐marins [...] sont des robots autonomes qui se présentent sous la forme de torpilles de longueur 1,50 m environ et de poids 50 à 60 kg. Ils sont équipés d’ailes leur permettant de planer dans la colonne d’eau jusqu’à des profondeurs de 1000 m, en suivant des trajectoires en dents de scie dans le plan vertical.

Spanish

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