The mooring's precarious position required use of 3,500-meter-long line (nearly two miles in length) that engineers designed, on the spot, specifically for this unique mooring recovery. They crafted their line from wire, polypropylene rope, floats to keep it buoyant, and several metal, four-pronged hooks (above Jeff Lord's hand, on left) with rounded edges to keep them from cutting the mooring?s wire. (Photo by Trish White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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