Physical data collected from Seaglider SG033 during Rapid-Mocha San Juan 3 September 2010 in the Caribbean Sea deployed from 2010-09-03 to 2010-09-07 (NCEI Accession 0162305)

Seaglider is a buoyancy driven autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by scientists and engineers at the University of Washington's School of Oceanography and Applied Physics Laboratory. Seagliders are designed to glide from the ocean surface to a programmed depth and back while measuring temperature, salinity, depth-averaged current, and other quantities along a sawtooth trajectory through the water. Seaglider has entered wide use in scientific deployments. They are designed for missions in range of several thousand kilometers and durations of many months. Seagliders are commanded remotely and report their measurements in near real time via wireless telemetry.

海滑翔机（Seaglider）是一款由华盛顿大学海洋学院与应用物理实验室的科研团队开发的浮力驱动自主水下航行器（Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, AUV）。该设备的设计目标为沿锯齿状水下轨迹往返于海面与预设深度之间，期间同步采集海水温度、盐度、深度平均流速及其他相关海洋参数。目前海滑翔机已在科学科考部署中得到广泛应用，其可支持数千公里的航程与长达数月的任务时长。海滑翔机可通过远程指令进行操控，并借助无线遥测技术以近乎实时的速率回传实测数据。