Datafish

With a life long fascination for model boats I couldn't help but notice this interesting marine device down on the Lymington slip way, it's called a Datafish and seems to be a remote/automated platform for marine survey and hydro graphic data collection.

The big X is a day mark and the device has lighting to comply with IALA navigation regulations, which I'm guessing is behind the colour scheme, or it could be the makers just have a sense of humour.- all together "and we lived beneath the waves....