Expensive equipment from edge of Kāpiti Marine Reserve vanishes
12 Apr, 2021 12:48 AM
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A buoy on the edge of the Kāpiti Marine Reserve is missing. Photo / Niwa
David Haxton is editor of Kapiti Newsdavid.haxton@nzme.co.nz
A search has been under way to find an expensive high-tech monitoring buoy and mooring which vanished from the edge of the Kāpiti Marine Reserve.
The buoy and mooring, worth about half a million dollars, was positioned in late November and has provided real-time measurements on currents and waves, salinity, oxygen and chlorophyll, water temperature, sediment, wind direction and speed.