Seaglider, Moorings Work Together (IMAGE)
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Moorings, strings of instruments tethered to the seafloor, monitor water in Davis Strait. The instruments are too valuable to be positioned where low-hanging pieces of ice might strike them. But it's that upper layer where the freshest water is often found, a place where seagliders travel as they dive repeatedly from the surface to the seafloor as the one in the center of the illustration is doing.
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Applied Physics Laboratory/U. of Washington
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