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To Sea Once More

October 28, 2014

The research vessel Knorr left Woods Hole on Sunday for the final cruise of its career at WHOI. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in support of research on the biology, chemistry, geology, geophysics, and physics of the ocean, and to advance instrument and vehicle development and ocean engineering. Along the way, it helped conduct the first surveys of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, explore chemosynthetic life on the seafloor, and discover the final resting place of RMS Titanic. On its last cruise, it is carrying the Long Core, a 30,000-pound instrument capable of extracting 150-foot-long sediment cores from the seafloor and that the ship had to be modified in order to support.(Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)