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FOLLOW-ON OF A SUBSURFACE YOYO. The YOYO-2001 project is the follow-on of a subsurface yoyo [Provost and du Chaffaut, 1996, 1998] and benefits from the experience and skills gained in the course of development and testing of the latter.
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FOLLOW-ON OF A SUBSURFACE YOYO The YOYO-2001 project is the follow-on of a subsurface yoyo [Provost and du Chaffaut, 1996, 1998] and benefits from the experience and skills gained in the course of development and testing of the latter. A subsurface YOYO equipped with V-CTDO2 sensors (ME) is presently deployed at 10°W, 0°N within the PIRATA mooring array, as part of the French program EQUALANT. The Yoyo is moved by a change of flotation due to pumping in and out hydraulic oil from an external bladder to an internal reservoir. This subsurface yoyo moves up and down along a taut cable of a subsurface mooring between a depth of 1000 meters and a subsurface depth of about 50 meters .