Measure for Measure for Measure consists of a tide gauge hut in which predictions produced for Liverpool’s Gladstone Dock are read aloud and accompanied by a synthetic sea rendering. The project reflects the deep connection Liverpool has with the sea, and foregrounds how instruments related to the science of measurement (metrology) affect our understanding of the natural world.

The Waverider buoy, first released in 1968, is capable of measuring very accurately wave height, wave direction, wave period, sea surface temperature and surface current, with data stored inside the buoy and transmitted via radio and/or satellite or GSM link.