On 1 July 2025, NIWA merged with GNS Science to become Earth Sciences New Zealand.

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Ben Cathie

Recovering mooring 1. The large orange thing is the floatation around a 75kHZ acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) which has measured the currents across a 500m depth range every 10 minutes for the year since the mooring was deployed.