WHOI/MIT Joint Program student Alec Bogdanoff (holding line) and Pete Liarikos, bosun on research vessel Knorr, tested a glider named “Boomer” (after a character from the television show Battlestar Galactica) during a September cruise measuring salinity in the so-called salinity maximum of the Atlantic Ocean. The glider, which measures turbulance, is one of several shallow-diving gliders…