TendOcean

TendOcean is a startup aimed at innovation excellence in marine resources and sustainability #seaweed

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TendOcean™ remote-sinking VDSB completes tests at WHOI

A shortened version of our Variable Displacement Spar Buoys has been successfully tested in @CascoBay, Maine, and in the test tank at @WHOI . An r.f. link commands sinking and its submerged duration. @TropicSeaweed @ARPAE

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@Roberson_Lo @MBLScience @TropicSeaweed It was a pleasure to host such a fine, esteemed group.

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@TropicSeaweed @YSIinc It looks like it's time for a dry docking.

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It must be kelp farm deployment season

It's been a busy couple weeks at TendOcean™ with farm systems being shipped to Sweden, Alaska, and Iceland, including 90#, 200#, and 400# TendOcean™ twin-shank drag-embedment anchors.

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@SeAgriculture Even more reasons:

✅ TendOcean™ will be there.

✅ Regenerative Ocean Farming is where it's at.

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@TropicSeaweed @Roberson_Lo An interesting windfall. With spiny lobster going for $10 per pound, maybe the farm needs re-thinking. Instead of 32 growlines and 4 variable displacement spar buoys, consider 32 buoys and 4 growlines. @ARPAE

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Best wishes from TendOcean™ on this Christmas Eve.

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Out fine tuning the kelp gear at Noble Ocean Farm in Simpson Bay, Prince William Sound. A beautiful day on the water in advance of a TendOcean™ catenary array workshop in Cordova, AK. @GreenWaveOrg @ARPAE @uafairbanks #seaweed #kelp

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A forest of anchors

Forty 200-pountd TendOcean™ anchors off to the hot-dip Galvanizing shop. Soon they will support a forest of sugar kelp in Connecticut and Maine.
@GreenWaveOrg
Ocean's Balance
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@Safe_Seaweed

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Eucheuma Catenary Farm heads to Puerto Rico

What do you do when your four variable-displacement spar buoys won't quite fit in the container? You tilt them.

These, and eight 400-pound TendOcean™ anchors are headed to La Parguera, PR. @TropicSeaweed @MBLScience @ARPAE @DOE

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What does seafood sustainability look like?

https://t.co/UVJvpZqzfr

TendOcean™ supplied the new 5-line spreader-bar rig being used by Two Docks Shellfish for its Eucheuma grow out operations. @ARPAE @MBL #seaweed

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Lots of networking going on at the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition going on right now in Portland, Maine. https://t.co/Qxc7MEXI1b @TropicSeaweed #seaweed @ARPAE

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TendOcean delivers a new kelp harvest system.
Bren Smith of GreenWave and TendOcean™ developed this ramp and hopper system for his Privateer 24 farm vessel. We turned to Wilson Welding in Salisbury MA to fabricate it and tend to the mounting details. @GreenWaveOrg #seaweed

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TendOcean™ will be there.
Mariculture for Alaska’s Future: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities
Can Alaska lead the way in economic opportunity using restorative ocean farming methods? See you in Juneau.
https://t.co/T8Nu63yT1O

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@AquariusSystems Shocking? In what way?

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@TropicSeaweed Looks good. Best of luck tying and seizing an anchor knot on scuba.

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Another Farm-in-a-Box from TendOcean

Today a crate containing three 5-line spreader rigs and three single-line rigs begins it's trip to Eureka, CA to become a bull kelp farm in Humboldt Bay. The project is a cooperation between @humboldtstate and @GreenWaveOrg. #kelp #seaweed

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Who says heavy lift can't be zippy. TendOcean worked with Response Marine of Newburyport, MA and Wilson Welding of Salisbury, MA on this affordable 6m twin-hull with a 1.2m x 2.4m moon pool for seaweed farm deployments and crop servicing. Damisela sports a pair of 25hp outboards

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New story up on our website about the concept and construction behind our custom-built vessel for seaweed seeding, harvesting, and research. Video and vision: @TendOcean @domenicm
Check it out: https://t.co/4tjsIoIgnj

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TendOcean in Kodiak
We are about to start harvesting 5 miles of growline lush with Saccharina latissima and Alaria esculenta. Here, Cliff, Dave, Alf, Scott, and Nick are giddy with excitement while Dom is behind the camera. @ARPAE @TropicSeaweed @SeaweedScience @uafairbanks

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We are ground truthing our kelp-drag model and the performance simulations that helped specify the farm components.

Sponsored by the @ENERGY @ARPAE program, this farm has 25,000 feet (7,625 m) of growline. In a couple weeks we will know the size of the crop it produced.

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Kelp Farm Instrumentation -

We cleared the lush growth off the ends of this 400' growline to install submersible 1,000-lb tension load cells to measure kelp drag during this period of large tidal cycles here in Kodiak, Alaska prior to harvest.
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