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Kōrero: Ocean currents and tides

Profiling

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Profiling

In this photograph a conductivity temperature depth profiler is being lowered over the side of a research vessel off the Poor Knights Islands in northern New Zealand. The device is used to collect water samples at selected depths, and measure a range of ocean properties such as temperature.

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NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

by Craig Stevens

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Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, Ocean currents and tides – Measuring the ocean, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5942/profiling (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.