The IOC and its Global Ocean Observing System with the JCOMM (Joint WMO IOC Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorlogy) have been coordinating the deployment of Argo drifting robots throughout the world’s oceans for over ten years. Recently a South African education sailing ship, Lady Amber, has been enlisted to deploy the Argo floats in parts of the Southern Indian Ocean which are otherwise seldom visited by research or cargo vessels. Now, after a year of operations in the Indian Ocean for Argo Australia, under UNESCO, and JCOMM, the Lady Amber will be making landfall in Perth Australia, where she will be greeted by our Perth Regional Programme Office and Australia's CSIRO. The crew has deployed about 57 floats in 2011 for CSIRO and have taken some risks at sea for Argo, crossing storms, tropical cyclones. The ship will deploy one more Argo before reaching Perth. The Argo network makes a major contribution to the Indian Ocean Observing System and will assist scientists better udnerstand and be able to predict the Ocean's dynamics. After celebrations in Perth the Lady Amber will continue its journey to Hobart to meet with the Argo officials from CSIRO.
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