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18.04.2012 16:17 Age: 1 year
Category: BlueWater, IMOS

New EAC mooring array completes the IMOS bluewater observing system

This final mooring deployment means IMOS is observing Australia's deep oceans from the tropics to Antarctica.


These orange buoys awaiting loading on the Marine National Facility,
Southern Surveyor, will be central components in the deep ocean
mooring systems being deployed across the East Australian
Current. Credit, Craig Macaulay, CSIRO

Bernadette Sloyan and Ken Ridgway, with ocean engineers Danny
McLaughlin and Jamie Derrick, who will deploy the deep ocean
moorings. Credit Craig Macaulay, CSIRO

Ocean currents surrounding Australia. Credit: CSIRO

The IMOS moorings will be deployed by CSIRO oceanographers on a 10-day, $2 million research voyage they believe will generate the most complete profile yet of one of Australia