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Well-wishers gathered on the WHOI dock in 1952 to bid farewell to the 179-foot research vessel Albatross III, which made 128 science cruises in the North Atlantic. After serving as a…

It might look like it just washed ashore, but this instrumented frame is fixed in place on Nova Scotia’s mega-tidal Bay of Fundy for a month at a time to…

The next ship in the UNOLS fleet to be operated by WHOI, the R/V Neil Armstrong, was launched on Saturday, February 22, at the Dakota Creek Industries shipyard in Anacortes,…

To many scientists, one of the most important features on the submersible Alvin is the sub’s sample basket, the stage on the front of the sub that holds instruments being…

Intense international focus came to WHOI—and director John Steele—in 1985 after a team of WHOI researchers and French oceanographers discovered the wreck of the Titanic, which sank in 1912 in the North Atlantic.…

Adelie and chinstrap penguins “porpoise” through the water of the Southern Ocean near South Thule Island. Penguins and other animals are uniquely adapted to life in the harsh conditions of…

WHOI archivist David Sherman holds a bottle like one of the more than 200,000 deployed between 1956 and 1972 to track ocean currents in the North Atlantic. One such bottle,…

The science crew aboard M/V Viking Madsalex waits in Sermilik Fjord in southeastern Greenland for a helicopter that will take them closer to Helheim Glacier, at the head of the…

WHOI microbiologist Craig Taylor used a lathe to fashion this device out of polycarbonate. It is an inlet port for an underwater instrument called the submersible incubation device. The central…

An “elevator” carrying samples from hydrothermal vents is hoisted from the water as members of the science team aboard R/V Atlantis watch from the rail of the ship. The elevator…

On recent evening in late January, R/V Atlantis approached the Bridge of the Americas on its way from the Pacific Ocean to the Panama Canal. After a stop in New…

Patrick Neumann, an able-bodied seaman on the research vessel Atlantis, grasps one of the manipulator hands of the submersible Alvin following a successful test dive in the Pacific Ocean. Alvin…

Marine biologist Darlene Ketten points to CT scans of a whale head, indicating its earbones. Ketten, an expert on marine mammal hearing and ears, examined the heads of two rarely…

Core samples from the seafloor provide Japan Atomic Energy Agency scientist Shigeyoshi Otosaka (left) and his colleagues data for studying the dispersion and sedimentation of radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear…

They may be microscopic and single-celled, but marine phytoplankton like these Melosira sp. are not immune to the stresses of everyday life. Like us, they require essential nutrients such as…