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I read with interest your piece on the sinking of the Sea Surveyor in 1969. (“What happened to Sea Surveyor?” Sept. 17)
At that time, I was privy to conversations between my husband Paul and fellow EB.
Editor’s note : This story is based on recollections of Walter Banzhaf and research by Scott Ritter and John Ruddy. Ritter, The Day’s production manager, is the son-in-law of Richard Carlson,.
The information is gathered using a range of sophisticated equipment including multi-beam echo sounder sonar, high accuracy GPS , sound sensor, shore mounted tide gauges, and computers and navigation software to interface sensors together andrecord datasets. Jimmy van der Pauw, who is leading the survey team with LINZ senior hydrographer Bradley Cooper, and data scientist Eva Lichtenburg-Cloo, said the best part of the survey was finding unexpected seafloor features.
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The sub-sea survey team of data scientist Eva Lichtenburg Cloo, left, Discovery Marine Ltd lead hydrographer Jimmy van der Pauw and Land Information NZ senior hydrographer Bradley Cooper. As an der Pauw guides the