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Whakaari/White Island: GNS science advising recovery efforts

07:27 am on 11 December 2019

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Scientific experts including from GNS science are advising police on three aspects of the recovery operation on Whakaari/White Island.

They are the conditions on the island, what people going onto the island will need, and how to care for and transport the bodies when they are recovered.

Brad Scott is a GNS volcanologist.

He speaks to Corin Dann.