The authors have in general responded well to the referees comments and the resubmitted manuscript is much improved. As a stand-alone manuscript I, like both referees, feel the content is insufficient, but taken in the context of the special it makes a valuable and useful contribution.

I have no further comments, except for the title. The original title is fine, again given this is a special issue, but a somewhat more informative title would be "Intermediate water flows in the South West Pacific as revealed by Argo float trajectories and a model reanalysis".