Research buoys hopes for wave power

Photo: Westerly News

A crew from Axys Technologies Inc. eases the WatchMate wave monitoring buoy into a ship waiting to take it out past Amphitrite Point in Ucluelet, where it will provide wind, wave and tidal current data for the UVic-led West Coast Wave Collaboration project, a network of researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and computer modeling experts investigating the potential for harnessing wave energy. Dr. Brad Buckham (mechanical engineering) is a primary investigator for the project.