Kōrero: Engineering on the sea floor

Whārangi 6. Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa

From page 1 - A hostile seabed

Offshore earthquakes around New Zealand

Cook Strait currents

Ruatōria Giant Avalanche

From page 2 - Submarine cables

Telegraph cable

Measuring Cook Strait’s currents

Power and fibre optics cables as they are laid along the Cook Strait sea floor in 1991

Upgrading cables

Old and new cables

Damaged cables

Arrival of the New Zealand cable at Botany Bay

From page 3 - Drilling the Māui gas field

Mining the Māui gas field

Māui A platform

Māui A in position

Māui A sinks

From page 4 - Coastal works

Building a breakwater

From sewer outfall to marine reserve, Ōwhiro Bay

Offshore slurry pipe

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Keith Lewis, Engineering on the sea floor, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/12590/media (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Keith Lewis, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.