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Picking Up the Pieces

Research technicians and ship’s crew work to recover the bottom section of a CLIMODE mooring from the Gulf Stream in October 2007. From the background (stern of the ship): senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord, engineering assistant Sean Whelan, bosun Clindor Cacho, and able-bodied seamen Leo Fitz and Alex Buchanan. (Photo by Patricia White, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)