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All Aboard the Armstrong

December 15, 2018

After a tour of WHOI’s research vessel Neil Armstrong, a group of friends of WHOI stands before the ship’s name on the starboard bow: (From left) General Gordon Sullivan, retired Army Chief of Staff and a Life Trustee of WHOI, his wife Lori, and Ed O’Brien, a local attorney and father of WHOI Dive Operations Manager Ed O’Brien, who is in charge of training for scientific diving at WHOI. The 238-foot Neil Armstrong, delivered to Woods Hole in 2015, can accommodate 24 scientists and a crew of 20 for up to 40 days at sea. (Photo by Dick Pittenger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)