An ocean drone recorded video in Hurricane Beryl. Here’s what it saw. 

In the hours after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou, a floating ocean drone intercepted the northern edge of the historically powerful storm in the violent Caribbean Sea.
The uncrewed research vessel, dubbed a saildrone, crossed paths with Hurricane Beryl 100 nautical miles south of Puerto Rico on Tuesday morning, according to California-based data company Saildrone Inc. The drone was less than 100 nautical miles from the Category 5 storm’s eye.
Dramatic footage documented by the drone shows waves towering over 25 feet tall, the same size of the saildrone if it was flipped vertically. The vehicle was in tropical storm conditions as gusts blew around 61 mph, according to the company.
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