It's incredible to actually be able to do it.

真的做到這一點很不可思議。

A Smartfin is a surfboard fin.

SmartFin (智慧鰭) 是一種衝浪板鰭。

You clip it on the bottom of your board and you go out for your surf session.

把它安裝在衝浪板尾端上，你就可以去衝浪了。

It has technology that measures ocean pH, salinity, ocean temperature, and very detailed wave characteristics.

它具有測量海洋pH值、鹽度、海洋溫度和詳細波浪特徵的科技。

So there will be an enormous amount of data.

所以會有龐大的數據。

The reason these parameters are important is because they are shifting directly as a result of climate change.

這些參數之所以重要，是因為它們會隨著氣候變化而改變。

We have detailed information about the deep ocean but very limited accurate information about the near shore.

我們獲得關於深海的詳細資訊，但關於近岸的準確資訊卻很有限。

Satellites can't be really accurate with data in that narrow zone and the other way is ocean buoys.

衛星無法準確地獲取這個狹窄區域的數據。另一種方法是用海洋浮標。

And they're just not deployed at the coast.

但它們並未部署在海岸上。

Bingo, Smartfin can fill that gap.

沒錯，Smartfin 能填補這個缺口。

Collecting oceanic data is a very time consuming, expensive process.

收集海洋數據是一個非常耗時、昂貴的過程。

This is like, you just need to know how to surf.

像是你得會衝浪。

The data moves from your fin to your phone via Bluetooth.

數據透過藍牙從智慧鰭傳輸至你的手機。

And from your phone it goes up to our servers where everything's processed.

再從你的手機傳輸至我們處理所有數據的伺服器。

I had to develop sensors that don't affect the surfboard.

我必須開發出不影響衝浪板的感測器。

Nobody's gonna surf a fin that is not a standard foil.

沒有人會使用不是標準箔材的鰭衝浪。

Aside from that LED right there that's blinking that tells you that there's like some sort of technology in there, you wouldn't know the difference.

除了那個閃爍的 LED 燈透漏了它採用了某種科技之外，你不會看出它與一般鰭的區別。

So we've got a test tank set up now.

我們現在建立了一個試驗箱。

And we're just trying to look at the precision and accuracy of the, um, instrument itself.

我們試圖檢測儀器本身的精密度和準確性。

Things are looking pretty promising.

整體的情況越來越好。

As a scientist it's pretty exciting to be able to get data over these different time and space scales.

作為一名科學家，能夠獲取不同時空尺度的數據是非常令人興奮的。

I mean the fact that you can go out and surf and contribute to understanding what's actually happening out there is incredible.

我的意思是，衝浪的同時能為海洋研究做出貢獻，這很不可思議。

I'm not a surfer, I know nothing about surfing.

我不是衝浪者，我對衝浪一無所知。

I know I look like a surfer, but I'm not.

我知道我看起來像衝浪者，但我不是。

Surfers are very influential and care deeply about the environment and want to be talking about it.

衝浪者很有影響力，也非常關心環境，並希望能有所貢獻。

So Smartfin is just a tool to do that in a more concrete way.

所以 Smartfin 是實踐這個目標的其中一個工具。