🔊🔊 SOUND ON! 🔊🔊 You might not want to watch this video if you're prone to seasickness...But you should TOTALLY watch this video of SD 1045 battling 90 mph winds and waves up to 100 feet in category 4 Hurricane Sam! NOAA revealed their preliminary findings from the hurricane mission, read all about on our website: https://www.saildrone.com/news/atlantic-hurricane-mission-new-era-observing-forecasting | Saildrone

Five Saildrone Explorers are deployed in the Atlantic Ocean to better understand the ocean processes that are occurring as hurricane intensity increases, which means collecting data immediately before and during a hurricane. Hurricane Sam was upgraded to a Category 4 storm by the National Weather Service as SD 1045 reached the storm. At the time the video was collected, the saildrone was experiencing winds gusting over 120 mph and 50-foot waves. The saildrones provide data directly to NOAA’s Pac