Ten automated profiling floats have been deployed in the north east Indian Ocean. Four roughly along 12S in international waters between Christmas Island and the Northwest Shelf of Australia, three along the IX1 XBT line and the remaining three near (24S,110E), (17S,118E) and (14S,114E). Four floats were deployed by RV Franklin, 4 by merchant ships along IX1 and 2 by the Royal Australian Navy.

The floats are programmed for an 'Argo' mission: that is, to drift at 2000m and profile to the surface every 10 days. Manufactured and ballasted by Webb Research Corporation through the Service, these R1 Palace floats are equipped with Seabird CTD's, delivering temperature and salinity values from 50 depths. (source: http://www.per.marine.csiro.au/cooe/index.html)

CSIRO Marine Research hosts the data from these profilers here