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Research vessel Atlantis Bosun Wayne Bailey signals to a crew member during ship operations for the Galápagos Rift Expedition in May and June 2005. Crew members work closely with scientists…

Early image of the catamaran Lulu, the first support ship for the submersible Alvin (in foreground), circa 1964. The 105-foot Lulu was built in Woods Hole from surplus minesweeping pontoons and…

The submersible Alvin surfaces after a dive as support vessel Atlantis moves into position for recovery. A typical dive is 8-10 hours. Alvin has made more than 5,000 dives since…

WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner enters data from a variety of ocean instruments and tools into his laptop during a 2005 cruise off Cape Cod to investigate where and how whales…

R/V Chain sailed in the WHOI fleet from 1958 to 1975, when it was retired. Formerly a Navy salvage ship during World War II, Chain was converted in 1958 for oceanographic research.…

A steel worker signs a ceremonial construction beam for one of the new laboratories on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. State-of-the-art laboratory facilities formarine research and biogeochemistry were completed in late 2005. (Photo…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Mea Cook images a sediment core with an X-ray. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Al Plueddemann and Glen Gawarkiewicz prepare to launch REMUS, an autonomous underwater vehicle, from R/V Tioga during a survey in shallow water off Chatham, Mass., in early 2006. (Photo by…

This specimen of Athorybia, a siphonophore or colonial jellyfish, was collected recently from a Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise off the U.S. East Coast. Researchers found many new species in water…

WHOI Microbiologist Stanley W. Watson monitors the oxygen uptake of microbes in a seawater sample during an R/V Chain cruise in 1961. (Photo courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)

Physical oceanographer Ken Brink demonstrated his model trains as part of the employee arts and crafts exhibit at the Institution’s 75th anniversary celebration on October 1, 2005. Events celebrating the…

Tiny species like this Euphausid photographed in a drop of water are prey to larger organisms in the oceanic food chain. About the size of a fingernail, the shrimp-like creature…

Mary Lardie prepares samples from the 18th century pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge for carbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility. Remains of Blackbeard’s flagship were…

A SPAR buoy is tested off the WHOI dock before loading onto R/V Atlantis. Built in the WHOI shops, the buoy is the largest object beside the submersible ALVIN to…

Greg Packard prepares an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) REMUS equipped with synthetic aperture sonar for testing off the WHOI dock. Different sensors can be added to REMUS depending on the…