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The research vessel Oceanus was greeted by its little sibling, Asterias, near Woods Hole. After its arrival in Woods Hole in November 1975, Oceanus proved to be a workhorse, with…

Somewhere during the 47-year life of the deep-submergence vehicle Alvin, someone found that padded boxing gloves did a perfect job of protecting the submerisble’s manipulator arms while it sat on…

A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle dove through the clear, blue waters of the Mediterranean in September 2011 on a mission to find and survey Bronze Age shipwrecks off the…

During a 2011 Dive & Discover cruise in the Mediterranean, scientists from WHOI and other institutions explored three super-salty “lakes” called DHABs at the bottom of the sea. They used…

With a storm approaching, a team worked “in the washing machine” of a raging surf zone at the Field Research Facility in Duck, N.C. in 2011 to recover instruments measuring…

FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) is a powerful technique in which a fluorescent tag is attached to an RNA fragment that in turn binds to specific kinds of cells. This…

A sediment sample in a push core taken from the upper reaches of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic basin (DHAB) hints at a complex history for the 3,000 to 35,000 year-old…

Ben Tradd, a pilot with the Jason operations group, takes in the sunset aboard the R/V Atlantis following days of heavy rain, high winds and rough seas in October 2011.…

The video plankton recorder, shown on deck at right, resembles a small airplane. In fact, it does fly—in the water. In August 2011, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian…

A photo taken by a camera on the remotely operated vehicle Jason reveals the weird, murky world of Urania Basin, an anoxic, super-salty “lake” 3.5 kilometers deep in the eastern…

In the 1950s and 60s it was rare to see four WHOI-operated ships docked at the same time in Woods Hole, their home port. The vessels, normally ranging around the…

WHOI researchers Craig Taylor and Ginny Edgcomb wheel SID-ISMS, a new water column sampler, to the main lab of R/V Atlantis in preparation for their 2011 research cruise in the…

German researchers Falk Pollehne (left) and Michael Zettler of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research prepare a Van Veen bottom grab sampler during an August 2011 research cruise off the…

Moments after the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) returned from beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of scientists hurried to remove the samples it brought back and…