WHOI mooring engineer Jim Ryder (blue hat) and two ship's crew members bring up the lost mooring float after ten years underwater. The float, which was suspended many meters beneath the surface and the Antarctic sea ice, is no longer the shiny yellow of a new float. Instead it is capped by a thick growth of marine organisms that settled on it over the years. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory )[back]
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