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With R/V Atlantis in the background, third mate Kami Bucholz (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Allison Heater act as recovery swimmers for Alvin on the surface of…

Deep-sea moorings face many hazards, including waves, storms, saltwater, vandalism—and hungry fish. Suspecting that fish were biting through their mooring lines, in the late 1960s the WHOI Buoy Group began…

On October 16, 1968, two steel cables supporting Alvin snapped during deployment for Dive 308, 120 miles south of Cape Cod. The sub plunged about 15 feet (4.5 meters), then…

In December 2010, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, was in the Gulf of Mexico helping investigate possible impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The cruise marked the first…

Probably the most familiar jellies are jellyfish, such as the Nausithoe punctata (above). Jellyfish are predators that use tentacles studded with stinging cells to catch and kill their prey, usually…

Pilots and scientists controlling the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason work from a darkened control room to monitor Jason’s instruments and video feed. The Jason control room is made up…

Tom Lanagan of WHOI (right) and Paul Walsczak of Oregon State University (facing camera) insert a section of pipe into the barrel of the Long Core during a research cruise…

Three captains of the original Atlantis meet on deck: (left to right) Scott Bray, John Pike, and Adrian Lane. Lane was master of Atlantis from 1956 to 1962, then WHOI…

WHOI researchers struggle to prepare a Bodman bottle for deployment during a cruise on the R/V Crawford in the late 1950s. Marine chemist Vaughan Bowen helped develop the sampling bottle,…

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to the highest watermarks on the wall of a house destroyed by a devastating tsunami following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast…

Flags flying, R/V Knorr steams down Vineyard Sound towards the WHOI dock and home, after crossing the Atlantic from the Azores in July 2010. A yellow “quarantine” flag, flown when…

Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, grew up in the farmlands of Nebraska, far from any ocean. As a result, he had little exposure to the…

Alvin recovery swimmer Jim McGill from the crew of the R/V Atlantis dives from the vehicle at sunset during a 28-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Led by Chief…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch carries tubes containing cultures of Aureococcus anophagefferens, which has been responsible for brown tides along heavily populated coastlines of the eastern U.S. and South…

Research vessels like the R/V Knorr need to be flexible. Depending on the objectives of each expedition, the ship might be outfitted with any number of moving parts that must…