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WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni watches as a Slocum glider heads away from the ship during a test run. The glider operates without a tether and moves up and down…

The two-bay scallops shown here are bivalves, which is the common name for marine and freshwater molluscs. The raised annual growth rings indicate these scallops are at a harvestable age.…

Students in the small boat safety class at WHOI form a raft for their instructor, Joseph Mokry of Ocean Rescue Systems. The students are wearing survival suits designed to keep…

Members of a 1947-48 cruise row back R/V Atlantis to the (visible in the background). The primary purpose of the six-month “Med Cruise” was to prepare bathymetric charts of the…

Skull of the deep-sea lancet fish, Alepisaurus ferox. In the early years of using moored instruments to gather information about the ocean, many moorings sustained gashes that some researchers attributed…

Sophia Merrifield, a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, prepares to deploy a surface drifter with the help of WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni about 20 miles off the tip…

WHOI physical oceanographer Dave Fratantoni prepares a Slocum glider for deployment on a research mission (in this picture, the glider’s wings have been removed). The glider moves up and down…

Take advantage of a unique opportunity today, August 7, to tour the global class research vessel R/V Knorr. Rain or shine, the public is invited to Woods Hole, to learn…

Former captain of R/V Knorr and current captain of R/V Atlantis, A.D. Colburn, is shown at work on the bridge of the Knorr. Captain Colburn commanded the ship for 10…

In 1977 during dives to the Galapagos Rift in the East Pacific, a team of geologists working aboard R/V Knorr and Lulu, the support ship for the submersible Alvin, see…

This white shark was spotted off Chatham during a tagging cruise in 2010.During the last few summers the number of white sharks on Cape Cod appears to have increased. The presence…

A work crew fits the boom to R/V Atlantis‘ new mizzen mast in this undated photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis served as WHOI’s globally ranging oceanographic…

A group of graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather on the deck of the (SSV) Corwith Cramer alongside the ship’s crew for the start of the 2011 Jake…

In the WHOI Core Lab, retiree and volunteer George Heimerdinger moves a length of sediment core encased in PVC pipe to the core splitter, where the PVC will be split…

Giant clams up to one foot long thrive in the crevices around seafloor pillow lava, which vent hydrothermal fluids with chemical nutrients. This vent site in the Pacific on the…

Autonomous under water vehicles (AUVs) have become an ever present tool used by oceanographers.  Here ocean engineer Hanumant Singh, tests SeaBED, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)  designed and built by…

Instruments, buoys, and rigging lines placed in the sea attract a wide variety of organisms. After 13 months in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, this orange float sported a…