To see plans and results from this year, see tables below.
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To see results from previous years, click here.
To download tracks from previous years, click here.
| Institution | Deployer | Date
Deployed (animation) | Dropsite (track) | Code | Colors | Status | Fate |
| NOAA/NEFSC | Cole/Merrick | 18 Feb | Jordan Basin | 1-3 | r,g,b | done | Georges Bank, Gulf Stream, ... |
| 4 Mar | Jordan Basin | 4-6 | c,m,y | underway | Georges Bank, Gulf Stream, ... | ||
| WHOI | McGillicuddy/Smith | 3 May | off Casco Bay | 1-3 | r,g,b | done | all went ashore: 2 Casco Bay and 1 Mass Bay |
| NOAA/NEFSC | Wenzel/Merrick | 7 May | off Cape Cod | 1,2 | k,m | underway | diverged: Buzzards Bay and Georges Bank |
| UNE | Tilburg/Arienti | 20 May | off Saco Bay | 1-2 | c,k | underway | headed offshore ... |
| WHOI | McGillicuddy/Smith | 28 May | off Cape Ann | 1-3 | y,g,c | underway | headed offshore ... |
| 29 May | off Casco Bay | 4-9 | r,g,b,k,c,m | underway | diverged: inshore and offshore | ||
| UNE | Tilburg/Arienti | 30 May | off Saco Bay | 3 | r,b | done | recovered by mariners |
| WHOI | McGillicuddy/Smith | 3 June | Nantucket Shoals | 1 | r | done | recovered by Andy Girard off Martha's Vineyard on 17 July |
| UNE | Tilburg/Arienti | 5 June | Saco River | 1 | k | done | headed out to sea and then back in, grounded on an Island off Kennebunkport |
| WHOI | McGillicuddy/Smith | 1 July | Georges Bank | 1 | r | underway | exited bank and caught in GS ring |
| UNH | Watson/Goldstein | 1 July | Great Bay | 1 | r | done | barely survived the 4th of July madness |
| 8 July | off NH | 2 | c | done | ran aground near Portsmouth on the same day as deployment | ||
| 16 July | off NH | 3,1 | y,g | underway | one up river and one to the south | ||
| 29 July | off NH | 4,2 | c,r | done | ashore at Hampton,NH and Magnolia MA, respectively | ||
| 19-20 Aug | off NH | 1,2 | m,k | underway | headed south ... | ||
| 3 Sep | Great Bay | 1 | m | underway | hung-up a few times but ... | ||
| WHOI | McGillicuddy/Smith | 7-9 August | Bay of Fundy | 1-9 | underway | ||
| UMASSD | King/Brown | 2008 | off Cape Cod | 1,2 | planned | ||
| Bowdoin | Laine/Fields | 2008 | Casco Bay | 1-6 | planned | ||
| SMCC | Gregory/Long | 2008 | Casco Bay | 1,2 | planned |
| Launch
Location |
Date Deployed | Deployer
(track) |
ID#
(Speed) |
Color | Fate
|
| Jordan Basin First Set | 18 Feb | DELAWARE | 82371 | red | short circuited south, picked up by Cape Sable Island fisherman, Peter Van Buskirk, on 21 April and stored at Clarks Harbor Coast Guard |
| DELAWARE | 82372 | green | retained in mid-gulf, apparently running out of battery in early June | ||
| DELAWARE | 82373 | blue | short circuited south,..., | ||
| Jordan Basin Second Set | 4 March | DELAWARE | 82374 | cyan | Direct ot Georges Bank, rode Gulf Stream to Grand Banks, ... |
| DELAWARE | 82375 | magenta | short circuited ... | ||
| DELAWARE | 82376 | yellow | entrained in the coastal current, reported in good shape on 7 March by Swan's Island Fisherman, Adam Joy, retained in mid-gulf, ... circuited | ||
| Casco Bay | 3 May | OCEANUS | 85391 | red | took the coastal current rapidly south, recovered on a Marshfield Mass beach in the early morning of 14 May by a homeowner, Jim Carroll, and stored by my sister-in-law's brother, Davy Lewis |
| OCEANUS | 85392 | green | in and out of Casco Bay a few times before it came aground on Cliff Island on 7 May, recovered by lobstermen Norm Anderson who gave it to his son Eric who gave it to lobsterman Elliot Thomas (after it has fallen off his track on I95) who gave it to lobsterman/teacher Brian Tarbox at SMCC, who gave it to... | ||
| OCEANUS | 85393 | blue | aground within 24 hours east of Orr's Island, recovered by homeowner Irene Thibault and picked up by SMCC's Nancy Townsend | ||
| Off Cape Cod | 6 May | DELAWARE | 85291 | black | Nantucket Shoals, ... |
| DELAWARE | 85292 | magenta | left Nantucket Shoals, approached Buzzards Bay, and recovered by Dennis McGillicuddy in his Whaler on 19 June | ||
| Off Saco Bay | 20 May | UNE/Tilburg | 85301 | cyan | eastward at first and then ... |
| UNE/Tilburg | 85302 | black | headed east and then north into the Bay of Fundy where it apparently ran out of battery on 8 August. | ||
| Off Cape Ann, Mass | 28 May | GOMTOX | 85201 | blue | ... |
| GOMTOX | 85202 | green | ... | ||
| GOMTOX | 85203 | cyan | ... | ||
| Off Casco Bay | 29 May | GOMTOX | 85394 | red | picked up by Harpswell Maine fisherman, Scott Harley "about a half mile from shore", brought into Cundy's Harbor and recovered by SMCC student Nancy Townsend. |
| GOMTOX | 85395 | green | came ashore south of Cape Elizabeth Maine on the morning of 5 June, lifted with the tide for a day or so, landed on a beach between two mansions, recovered by Dennis Sheehy while visiting friends, and delivered to Nick Wolff (USM) | ||
| GOMTOX | 85396 | blue | ... | ||
| GOMTOX | 85397 | black | ... | ||
| GOMTOX | 85398 | cyan | made counterclockwise loop, disappeared on 6 June, reappeared on 12 June near Isle of Shoals, recovered by boater Eliot Shanabrook on Star Island w/no transmitter, and delivered to Steve Karger at the Marblehead Yacht Club. The transmitter, however, washed up on a little island to the east of Isle of Haut on 6 August 2008 and stopped transmitting a few days later. | ||
| GOMTOX | 85399 | magenta | made counterclockwise loop, headed SW, skirted Isle of Shoals, ... | ||
| Off Saco Bay | 30 May | UNE/Tilburg | 85303 | cyan | Took Western Maine Coastal Current south and recovered by Watson/Goldstein team on 10 June south of the Isle of Shoals |
| UNE/Tilburg | 85304 | black | picked up by Portland lobsterman, Marshall Spier, in a matter of hours after it was deployed, brought back to Custom House Wharf, recovered and stored by Nick Wolff (USM), and then redeployed as #86301 | ||
| Nantucket Shoals | 3 June | GOMTOX | 86091 | red | recovered by Andy Girard a few hundred meers of the south coast of Martha's Vineyard on 17 July |
| Saco River | 5 June | UNE | 86301 | blue | Headed out of the river, turned southward, landed on a small island east of Vaughn Island (near the Bush compound) about 24 hours later, and never heard from again. |
| Georges Bank | 1 July | GOMTOX | 87171 | green | exited bank and caught in ring |
| Great Bay NH | 1 July | UNH | 87301 | red | recovered after wild trip |
| off NH | 8 July (single) |
UNH | 87302 | cyan | ran aground hours after deployment |
| 16 July (1st pair) |
UNH | 87303 | yellow | headed up river | |
| UNH | 87201 | green | headed south | ||
| 29 July (2nd pair) |
UNH | 87304 | blue | recovered near shore by fishermen on the 6th of August SW of Gloucester,MA | |
| UNH | 87202 | red | recovered ashore by lifeguards at Hampton Beach NH on 3 August | ||
| 19-20 Aug (3rd pair) |
UNH | 88201 | blue | almost aground on Isle of Shoals, headed south w/intermittent transmissions, down the back side of Cape Cod, | |
| UNH | 88202 | blue | headed around Cape Ann, into Mass Bay, recovered by Mari Butler (oceanography instructor at Endicott College in Beverly MA) by swimming out off the beach! | ||
| Great Bay NH | 3 Sep | UNH | 89301 | red | hung-up a few times but ... |
| Bay of Fundy | 8 August | GOMTOX | 88461 | r | surface...nearly beached northeast of Digby Gut, ... |
| GOMTOX | 88462 | g | surface... | ||
| GOMTOX | 88463 | m | surface....nearly beached northeast of Digby Gut,... | ||
| GOMTOX | 88464 | b | 15m...first to exit BoF gyre, hungup on lobster gear off Jonesport Maine on 14 August, released by USCG's Nathan Hamilton a day later, hungup again on 17 August, brought in to Buck's Harbor by Steven Gatcomb (after the drogue got caught in his gear) and then recovered by Jim Churchill while traveling downeast. | ||
| GOMTOX | 88465 | r | 15m failed. | ||
| GOMTOX | 88466 | k | 15m...second unit to exit the gyre (29 Aug), entrained in the Easttern Maine Coastal Current, recovered by unknown Jonesport fishermen/mariner on 31 August | ||
| GOMTOX | 88467 | c | 15m... | ||
| GOMTOX | 88468 | y | 15m... | ||
| GOMTOX | 88469 | b | 15m failed. |
