A New Glider Leg Begins

A New Glider Leg Begins

Glider September 9, 2026

The Maui Ocean Glider Survey section of the Te Moana Mahana project recently entered its second leg when a deployment off of the coast just north of Dunedin near Palmerston. This leg will see the glider travelling over the shelf seas off the Otago and Canterbury coast.

You can track the glider’s previous journies, follow it’s present journey in near-real-time, along with seeing near-live data collected by the ocean glider via the map on this website.. In additon to the map, general information about ocean gliders and 3D plots from the first glider leg can be found on this page.