Built Right

Tony Delane, WHOI welder and fabricator, assembles the lower frame of a coastal surface mooring. The WHOI Mechanical Shop routinely designs and assembles the platforms and instruments that must weather the extreme conditions of the ocean. The devices they produce help scientists assemble a multi-dimensional view of the ocean and the changes that occur there over large distances, great depth, and long periods of time. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)