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Rosettes of the Deep

George Tupper (left) and  Terry McKee (right) of WHOI’s Physical Oceanograpthy Department are assisted by Matt Wilkerson of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences as they prepare a rosette for deployment off Bermuda in September 2010. Instruments packages like this are used to capture  samples of water flowing past Bermuda as part of the DynAMITE program (Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment), a study of deep circulation in the Atlantic Ocean.(Photo by Penny Foster, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)