Tethys Operations Report for the RWSC Polaris Deployment 1: Winter 2026 Deployment

<jats:p>This report includes an operations summary of the Tethys Long Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (LRAUV), Polaris, during the January 2026 deployment (Deployment 1) of the Wake Impacts Project, funded by the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative (RWSC). The report contains information on the vehicle’s payload, mission statistics, and summary plots. Related datasets are hosted by the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO).</jats:p>