Top Deck

The WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr rests at a dock in Nuuk, Greenland in October 2006, with a Danish naval vessel alongside. Delivered to WHOI in 1968, Knorr has traveled more than a million miles the equivalent of two round trips to the Moon or forty trips around the Earth–in the name of science. The ship’s anti-roll tanks and ice-strengthened bow enable it to work in all of the world’s oceans and to the edges of the Polar Regions. (Photo by Karen Johnson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)