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>>duck+(OP)
The date of the video is the most impressive to me here. It says “Sept. 30, 2021” both as the date of the article and the date of the video. If this is not a mistake that means they managed to deliver the video from the hurricane to the internet in less than 24 hours.

Why is this impressive? Either they beamed it out through satelites, which is notoriously hard from an unstable platform on big waves, or they recovered the saildrone and obtained the footage directly which is equally impressive in or around a hurricane.

All around if the dating of the footage is correct it is very impressive to me.

>>krisof+79
All that...by a US federal agency. Respect.

>>metaph+Oa
Saildrone is a startup; its primary customer is NOAA, the US Federal agency in the question.

From my impressions, NOAA is a very useful agency that delivers on its mission pretty well. But I never interacted with them directly.

>>krasin+bb
Their forecasts are used by basically all the news reports in the entire country. They might actually have the most direct effect on your life of any agency out there. When there is a warning or watch it's basically their call.

>>hparad+Tc
Something about NOAA brushing shoulders with what could have been existential disaster[1] to the detriment of the public, only to resume their mission of diving head first into natural ones supported by the first-to-market ethos of a modern startup has poetic justice vibes to it. A win for both Saildrone and the general public at large.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-14/trump-s-p...