Doing some last-minute checks in the workshop, Senior Engineer Jim Valdes (left) fits a yellow profiling float into the 8-foot frame of a new instrument, the Submerged Autonomous Launching Platform (SALP), as Engineering Assistant Dave Wellwood steadies the frame. This SALP and its twin, visible to the left, were deployed in the Labrador Sea inSeptember. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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