“Red sky at morning…”

“… sailors take warning.”  The old adage applies as WHOI’s ship R/V Oceanus sits at the dock in St. George, Bermuda one morning in December 2008, just before a big storm. The storm actually delayed by one day the ship’s scheduled departure for a the cruise — part of the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) measurements for the Bermuda Institute of Oceanographic Science (BIOS), a long-lasting time series study of ocean biogeochemistry.
(Photo by Alexander Dorsk, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)