By the Numbers
Data that drives discovery
Updated October 2025
5
Arrays
80
Platforms
900
instruments
Continuously collecting ocean data
in Earth's harshest seas
Just one array weighs over
1.6 million lbs
(That's the weight of 20 humpback whales)
84
expeditions
launched
183
Gliders
deployed
601,865
kilometers
traveled
(The equivalent of traveling around the globe 15 times)
On the Pacific Coast
924 km of cable
(enough to reach the International Space Station... and back)
powers
70M
meters of
profiler travel
transmits
1.75
Gigabytes of data
every second
By measuring
200 parameters
Ocean Observatories has generated
180+
billion rows of data
12,867
hours of video
2.1M
underwater images
and fulfilled nearly
1 billion downloads
Supporting
503 articles
in peer reviewed journals