Catch! In the workshop, a spring-loaded clasp holding the float is released, and the float is ejected as if a person's two thumbs pushed it away from the frame. Here it falls into Jim Valdes' and Amy Bower's hands. When deployed 1,500 feet under water, the central controller will trigger the clasp and shove the float into a swirling eddy passing by the mooring that holds the SALP frame. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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