Paper Summary
In this paper, the authors present results from a collaborative effort to field test a recently developed single station rotational sensor (Faber et al 2020). The main goals have been to (1) demonstrate that the sensor can be deployed and used in an offshore setting and (2) to assess the potential of this single sensor prototype unit to directly measure translational and rotational components, verified by reference data measured by nearby conventional nodes. Early results and data examples from a field trial acquiring ocean bottom multi-component data with this new motion sensor are presented as a first step in a wider scope effort to develop acquisition technology that could enable cost-efficient full wavefield reconstruction capabilities.