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Graduate students Sigrid Katz (University of Vienna) and Carly Strasser (WHOI) greet Alvin pilot Pat Hickey after he completed his 600th dive in the submersible on November 12, 2006. Hickey has…

Fresh from refinishing work, the “Z-drive” propulsion units on the underside of the research vessel Knorr are exposed in a Jacksonville, Fla., shipyard. The shrouded drives can turn 360 degrees,…

A tidewater glacier in Prinz Christian Sound (on the southern tip of Greenland) calves small “bergy-bits,” as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy passes by. The Healy, which today routinely…

Amphorae, the ancient equivalent of today’s 55-gallon steel drums, lie strewn on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Advances in underwater imaging and autonomous vehicles are enabling archaeologists to expand…

It took 35 of Jim Broda’s lab-mates and friends to hoist the PVC prototype of a new long-coring pipe outside of WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The new piston-corer, being installed on…

WHOI research associate John Lund and senior scientist Bob Weller prepare to deploy an APEX float off the fantial of R/V Oceanus during rough weather in November 2005. The float…

When the 33-year-old bridge over the Eel Pond channel was beingrepaired in 1971, Allyn Vine and colleagues rigged this tire ferry to keepfoot traffic moving along Water Street in Woods Hole. (Photo…

Researchers and crew members struggle to deploy a spar buoy in rough seas during a January 2006 cruise of R/V Atlantis for the CLIMODE project. The buoy measured the exchange…

Welcome to Barrow, Alaska, where the Iñupiat people rely on the annual migration of bowhead whales to coastal waters for food and for sustaining long-standing cultural traditions. Barrow, the northernmost…

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 the first…

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 Laboratory…

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, and a…

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 on…

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. The nodes…

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…