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Vehicle of Discovery

June 3, 2018

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and Vice President for Marine Facilities & Operations Rob Munier (right) show the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences Bill Easterling (center left) and NSF Division Director of Ocean Sciences Rick Murray (center right) around the WHOI dock and research vessel Neil Armstrong earlier this year. The tour included a number of research platforms and vehicles such as this REMUS 6000 shown here. The autonomous underwater vehicle was used to find and explore the wreck of the San Jose, a Spanish galleon that sank in a battle off the coast of Columbia in 1708. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)