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The research vessel Atlantis spends most of its time  transporting the submersible Alvin from dive site to dive site. It recently returned to Woods Hole, however, to act in its other role as one of the premiere globally ranging oceanographic research vessels in the U.S. academic fleet. Atlantis has already spent part of 2015 supporting deployments to the Southern Ocean and Argentine Basin Arrays of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative. It will continue through the summer and fall with instrument recovery and deployment to the Pioneer and Irminger Sea Arrays.(Photo by Christopher Griner, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)