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Albatross Farewell

Albatross Farewell

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…

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Almost Home

Almost Home

Peter Leonard, chief mate on the research vessel Atlantis, aided in a late-day recovery of the submersible Alvin during one of 14 certification dives in November near the coast of…

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Critical Detail

Critical Detail

In 2012, a pair of autonomous gliders, each equipped with a MicroRider instrument package, were deployed during the Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS) cruise. The expedition…

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Listening to the Tide Roll In

Listening to the Tide Roll In

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…

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First Time in the Water

First Time in the Water

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,…

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In the Basket

In the Basket

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…

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A Dramatic Demonstration

A Dramatic Demonstration

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.…

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Titanic Homecoming

Titanic Homecoming

Crowds of family members, WHOI staff, and other wellwishers—including hundreds of journalists and 18 film crews—thronged the pier at WHOI in September 1985, as the research vessel Knorr returned from…

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Taking Flight

Taking Flight

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…

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Research Relics

Research Relics

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,…

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Glacial Pace

Glacial Pace

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…

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Pinpoint Accuracy

Pinpoint Accuracy

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…

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Old, Cold Seafloor

Old, Cold Seafloor

Well-bundled against the cold, WHOI engineer Christopher Griner (left) and guest student Christopher Maio prepare the Giant Gravity Core to sample seafloor sediments near the mouth of the Mackenzie River…

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Tale of the Scales

Tale of the Scales

WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz examines scales of haddock collected on annual surveys by the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service to assess fish stocks. The scales, dating back to the 1930s,…

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Top Floor

Top Floor

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…

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Just Passing Through

Just Passing Through

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…

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Good Dive!

Good Dive!

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…

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All Eyes

All Eyes

Miriam Sollich, a graduate student at the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen, Germany, keeps a close eye on the pressure of a nitrogen tank as she prepares an…

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