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Stone Giants
The R/V Atlantis works off the coast of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the southeastern Pacific Ocean during a 1998 research expedition. During the cruise, researchers used the submersible Alvin…
Read MoreCT Scans Reveal Coral’s Secrets
WHOI researchers Neal E. Cantin and Anne L. Cohen examine a Red Sea coral specimen just outside a CT scanner tube. Their pioneering use of CT scanning revealed that these…
Read MorePiecing Together Titanic
This mosaic of the RMS Titanic on the seafloor 2.5 miles below the surface was assembled in 1987 using nearly 100 of the 53,000 images taken by the towed sled…
Read MoreSurviving Graduate School
A group of new graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program try on emergency survival suits, also called “Gumby suits,” during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Each year, the…
Read MoreDeep-Sea Organisms in Shallow Waters
In May, scientists aboard R/V Oceanus collected sediments and water—shown here in a CTD rosette—to examine the dispersal distances of amoeba-like benthic organisms off Massachusetts and Georgia. In the lab,…
Read MoreThe Track of a Hunter
The track of the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is depicted here as it hunted for hydrothermal vents in the Cayman Trough in 2009. The green and blue dots…
Read MoreOuter Space on the Seafloor
The discovery of rusticles—rusting iron—on the wreck of the RMS Titanic opened a new field of research into the microscopic bacteria eating the iron. If bacteria can thrive on iron…
Read MoreBrrrr!
Not all scuba diving occurs in balmy seas or near coral reefs. Scientists dive in Antarctica to collect zooplankton that occur nowhere else, and–as shown here–divers brave the icy waters…
Read MoreWelcome Home Atlantis
Nathan (left) and Patrick McGuire, sons of WHOI associate scientist Jeff McGuire, welcome R/V Atlantis home to Woods Hole with the Lego models of the ship they made this summer.…
Read MoreAtlantis Returns
Atlantis Returns
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Read MoreBig Shrimp
Scientists collected this 2.5-inch juvenile stomatopod, or “snapping shrimp,” in a plankton net in the Arabian Sea. Adult stomatopods live on coral reefs, where big eyes and good color vision…
Read MoreThe Impact of Storms Past and Future
WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly takes a sediment core in the marsh behind Cape Cod’s Menauhant Beach, to show participants in the 2004 Ocean Science Journalism program a layer of sand…
Read MoreAtlantis Returns
Celebrating the End of a Science-Filled Summer
Students, scientists, and organizers—including Ambrose Jearld (far left, Northeast Fisheries Science Center), George Liles (center, Woods Hole Aquarium), and Ben Gutierrez (third from right, USGS)—recently celebrated a summer of learning…
Read MoreThe Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944
On September 14, 1944, with a category 4 hurricane working its way up the Eastern seaboard, WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis was secured to the National Marine Fisheries Service dock in…
Read MoreAlmost Home
Ordinary seaman, and occasional Alvin support swimmer, Ronald Whims, relays directions to Alvin’s pilot and helps guide the submersible into position for recovery by the research vessel Atlantis during a…
Read MoreRMS Titanic, Meet DSV Alvin
The wreckage of RMS Titanic was discovered on the seafloor 25 years ago this week. A year later, a WHOI-led expedition returned with the deep-sea vehicle Alvin and Jason Jr.,…
Read MoreA Titanic Tale
Two Ships Pass
In 2009, R/V Knorr and Atlantis crossed paths in San Diego. They barely missed reuniting again in Woods Hole recently—Knorr left last weekend for Greenland while Atlantis arrives over the…
Read MoreLooking Back: 25 Years Ago Today
The first evidence that researchers aboard the R/V Knorr had found the RMS Titanic came on September 1, 1985, from this mundane-looking photo of what turned out to be one…
Read MoreNew Kid on the Block
On Aug. 31, 1931, WHOI’s first deep-ocean research vessel Atlantis arrived in Woods Hole for the first time. The 142-foot, steel-hulled ship was the first built for the U.S. specifically…
Read MorePutting Alvin Together Again
Every few years, the research sub Alvin is completely overhauled. Here, Alvin is reassembled during its first major refit in 1967. The crew included chief mechanic George Gibson (standing on…
Read MoreFlying escorts
Alvin pilot Mark Spear photographed two brown pelicans escorting R/V Atlantis from Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica after taking on fuel and loading science equipment in January. The largest of the…
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