Autonomous Underwater Vehicles are only now being marketed as robust commercial vehicles for many industries, and of these vehicles underwater gliders are becoming the new tool for oceanographers. Satellites have provided scientists and marine specialists with measurements of the sea surface such as temperature since the late 1970s, and data via subsurface oceanographic moorings since the 1950's. As stated by David Smeed of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, England, that "gliders are one of the technological developments that are changing the way we observe the ocean and it is very exciting for us to be at the forefront of their application in ocean and climate science" (Douglas, 2008). The Southampton team deployed a Slocum Glider on the 16th of September 2008 in the Eastern Atlantic (launched from the Canary Islands with the co-operation of the Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas (the Canarian Institute of Marine Science) with the aim of determining the interaction between oceans and climate and the intent to improve the ability of the scientist to detect signs of rapid climate change. That vehicle is expected to