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The sunken luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic was located on September 1, 1985 by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s new imaging vehicle Argo, towed from the Research Vessel Knorr.  Today the…

Zooplankton come in a wide range of sizes, for comparison, here’s a Calanus copepod next to a krill. The krill or euphausiid is about one and one-half centimeter long while…

Retired WHOI researcher Hovey Clifford instructs Summer Student Fellow Tara Hetz in collecting animals derived from towed samples during the recent cruise onboard R/V Tioga. The glass dish they are…

Remnants of natural explosions of oil from the seafloor (asphalt volcanoes) are now being observed. Marine chemist and Coastal Institute director Chris Reddy and Dave Valentine of University of California,…

A look at Silver Beach in North Falmouth, Ma., after the hurricane of 1938 shows the extensive damage a hurricane can do to the coast.  Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic…

Jordan Aoyama, a student in the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) sponsored by the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee, learns sextant skills from R/V Tioga captain Ken Houtler during…

On a 2006 cruise to explore the deep Celebes Sea, expedition scientists collected this 3-centimeter (1.25-inch) isopod — a relative of land-based pill bugs — using a collection chamber mounted…

Researcher Leigh Hickmott tags a pilot whale using a digital recording tag (D-Tag) during the Mediterranean 2009 research cruise — part of an ongoing, international and interdisciplinary effort to better…

Orcas (Orcinus orca), also called Killer Whales, sometimes spy-hop — hold their heads and upper bodies out of the water to look for prey. This Orca bides his time as…

An aerial view of Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta, where marine geochemists Tim Eglinton, Daniel Montluçon, and geologist Liviu Giosan are looking for clues to past climate change. During 2009 Spring…

Oceanographer Emeritus and biologist George Hampson (center) and Hovey Clifford (blue shirt) retired WHOI  dockmaster and present CPR teacher and EMT  showing  Summer Student Fellows Yadira Ibarra (left) and Abigail…

Looking like a collection of bubbles, this pyrosome (the name means “fire body”) is a cylindrical colony, 7 centimeters (2.75 inch) long, made up of individual animals (the “bubbles”.) Each…

They look like space stations, but actually are colonial forms of single-celled organisms called radiolarians, collected in the deep Celebes Sea. The white blobs are individual cells, and the geodesic…

Norman Farr, of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department, shows a group of elite runners from Kenya  — (from left to right) Richard Limo, James Koskei, Felix Limo, Gilbert…