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O*NET detailed work activityMeasure the level or depth of water or other liquids
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This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Measure physical characteristics of materials, products, or equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Check tire pressure and levels of fuel, motor oil, transmission, radiator, battery, or other fluids, adding air or fluids as required.
- Measure depths of water, using depth-measuring equipment.
- Observe water levels and oil, air, and steam pressure gauges to ensure proper operation of equipment.
- Tend vessels that store substances such as gases, liquids, slurries, or powdered materials, checking levels of substances by using calibrated rods or by reading mercury gauges and tank charts.
- Lower gauge rods into tanks or read meters to verify contents, temperatures, and volumes of liquid loads.
- Read draft markings to determine depths of vessels in water.
- Measure the properties of bodies of water, such as water levels, volume, and flow.
- Measure vessels' holds and depths of fuel and water in tanks, using sounding lines and tape measures.
- Measure depth of water in shallow or unfamiliar waters, using leadlines, and telephone or shout depth information to vessel bridges.
- Take depth soundings in turning basins.