A live map of currents, chemistry and seafloor motion.
Bathys integrates natively with mooring arrays and satellite uplinks to synthesize an uncorrupted, millisecond-accurate view of the deep-ocean environment.
Instruments, relays, topology.
A single sensor reports a value. The array reports where the value is going. Each layer exists to make the next one honest.
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Instrument layer
Pressure, temperature, conductivity and acoustic backscatter on every mooring, sampled on-hull and timestamped before the first hop.
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Relay layer
Surface and mid-water relay buoys form a self-healing acoustic mesh. A noisy short hop is replaced by a clean longer one automatically.
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Topology layer
The engine knows which moorings are up-slope of which. Gradients are evaluated along the array, not per instrument.
One mooring, top to bottom.
Five parts, one vertical. Hover or focus a part to find it on the schematic.
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Surface relay buoy
Acoustic modem, satellite uplink when in range, solar top-up. Re-routes hops to keep the array inside the 12 ms budget.
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Mid-water relay
Second acoustic hop at 1,500–2,500 m. Self-healing mesh: a noisy short hop is replaced by a clean longer one.
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Sensor head
Pressure at 4 Hz (20 Hz during an open Watch), temperature, conductivity, hydrophone 10 Hz – 48 kHz calibrated hourly against the reference ping.
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Titanium pressure hull
Rated to 6,000 m with a 1.5× safety factor. Encrypts telemetry on the hull, keeps eighteen months of battery reserve and reports it.
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Ballast and anchor
Cascaded pressure thresholds trigger an autonomous release inside the warning window; an operator hold always wins. Recovered on the next cycle.
Mooring datasheet.
| Parameter | Value | Notes |
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| Rated depth | 6,000 m | Titanium pressure hull, 1.5× safety factor |
| Pressure sampling | 4 Hz | 20 Hz while a Watch event is open |
| Hydrophone band | 10 Hz – 48 kHz | Reference ping calibration hourly |
| Acoustic link | ≤ 12 ms mean | 95th percentile 16.2 ms, adaptive relay routing |
| Battery reserve | 18 months | Bottom-mounted pack, remote reserve telemetry |
| Ballast release | Autonomous + operator | Cascaded thresholds, 11-minute mean warning window |
| Deployment cycle | 36 h per pair | Each hop measured before the next pair goes in |
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A single instrument, and the array.
Same water, same physics. What changes is what a reading is allowed to mean.
What a reading means
A value at one point.
A value placed on the slope, relative to the moorings up- and down-stream.
When you hear about it
When a threshold is crossed.
When the gradient starts, eleven minutes earlier on average.
What happens to a bad link
Data gap.
Re-routed hop; the topology shows the new latency.
What the seafloor model knows
The last survey.
The last transit — versioned and diffable.
Who decides under pressure
Whoever is awake.
A logged rule inside the window, and a human hold that always wins.
See the array running on your basin.
Request a private survey briefing: we walk through the topology, the relay plan and the deployment schedule for your depth range.