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Researchers aboard the R/V Atlantis II struggle to deploy a conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD) rosette over the side in rough weather during a cruise in September 1981. The cruise was […]

One of the U.S. Navy’s newest oceanographic survey vessels, USNS Mary Sears, called in Woods Hole from July 24-26, 2002. The ship tied up within sight of the Bigelow […]

WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp displays a handful of cotter pins and the calloused signs of hard work at sea. WHOI researchers have worked extensively in the past few […]

In  forty years of operation, the deep submergence vehicle Alvin has evolved and changed its look several times (oldest version at the top right, current version at bottom left, […]

History will be made today with the placement of one of the most extreme long-distance calls this side of a Moon landing. WHOI marine biologist Tim Shank–diving in Alvin […]

The skeleton of a dead whale was intentionally sunk off the coast of San Diego in order to study how “whale falls”–when whales die at sea and drop to the […]

Scientists and technicians, working on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga, deploy an undersea “node” near the Air-Sea Interaction Tower of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory. […]

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) takes a gulp of water and fish, while tiny sandlances jump out of its mouth. The sandlance, commonly known as a “sand eel,” is a […]

Working off the coast of Baffin Island (in the Canadian Arctic), the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr backs up to an iceberg to retrieve a piece of equipment for the […]

Engineering tech Andy Billings (left) and Alvin pilot Anthony Tarantino finish securing the submersible on the deck of the research vessel Atlantis.  Next week, researchers diving in […]

The WHOI research vessel Knorr is raised into the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Florida, in March 2005. All ships in the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)—of which […]

The new Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle meets the submersible Alvin during a testing expedition off Bermuda in April 2006. Sentry is a robotic underwater vehicle used for exploring […]

Summer Student Fellows and Minority Student Fellows enjoy a sampling trip onboard the 60-foot coastal research vessel Tioga. The fellowships, awarded to science and engineering students who have […]

MIT/WHOI graduate students and faculty explored a bubbling, sulfur-encrusted hot spring in June 2006 during an educational field trip to Iceland. The trip capped WHOI’s Geodynamcs Program, a […]

Stainless steel “core catchers” are fresh off the production line. These hand-made fabrications are inserted in the bottom of various sediment coring devices. They open up when the […]