Bluelink project helps Navy

June 10th, 2014

Navy Daily: A decade long project involving the Royal Australian Navy, CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has delivered an Australian first and world class ocean forecasting system.

image of ARGO deployment

Navy Daily

Lieutenant James Fethers deploys one of fourteen ARGO buoys to be deployed by HMAS Melbourne.

United Nations World Ocean Day was celebrated on 8 June, and Lieutenant Commander Bulters said it was important to highlight the contributions BLUElink had made to the protection of the ocean.

Project BLUElink will celebrate the final delivery of project milestones in July this year, at which time systems will transition to a sustainment phase, under the successful three way partnership of the Royal Australian Navy, BoM and CSIRO.

Read the full article: https://news.navy.gov.au/en/Jun2014/Fleet/1122/BLUElink-project-helps-Navy-understand-and-protect-the-marine-environment.htm