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Dickie Edwards in Jaws
(Photo by Ryan Daly)
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Richard "Dick" Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War, Edwards became an expert in explosives. Early in his early career at WHOI, he applied his knowledge of explosives to the work of seismic researchers, though Navy officials continued to call on his expertise for many years. (Cliff Winget/©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Port side of the <em>Titanic</em> bow, the two capstans and the port and starboard anchor chains are visible. (©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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WHOI's Ocean Sciences Discovery Center on School Street.
(Photo by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Elizabeth Spiers
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Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San
Diego, Calif. (Image by Zoe Daheron, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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An aerial view of Woods Hole, Massachusetts (© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Leaders from Cape Cod, including WHOI, gathered in Woods Hole as part of MassCEC’s state-wide road show aimed at growing and strengthening the state’s support for companies developing climate-focused technologies. 

L to R: Diego Huezo, MassCEC; Jillian Appling, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Office; Dr. Peter de Menocal, WHOI; State Representative Thomas Moakley; Mike Jackman, Congressman Bill Keating’s Office; Galen Nelson, MassCEC; Dr. Jennifer Le Blond, MassCEC. (Photo by: Michael Brook/©MassCEC)
Lukas Taenzer (right), first author of the study, and Adrienne Silver, former Postdoc at WHOI, prepare a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette to be deployed from RV Neil Armstrong to capture the water properties on the US Northeast continental shelf (Photo: Avijit Gangopadhyay/©UMass Dartmouth).
Four long-term resident mother-calf pairs swim off the coast of Sarasota. Three of these mothers benefited from interventions by the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program team: one was disentangled from embedding line encircling her head when she was not even a year old; another  was rescued when it stranded on a beach near where this photo was taken; project veterinarians removed a stingray barb from the head of another. (Photo courtesy of Randy Wells, © Sarasota Dolphin Research Program)
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Julia Guimond (Photo by Brady Clarke © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)
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A strand of sugar kelp being experimentally farmed in New Castle, NH. Kelp and other seaweeds provide essential micronutrients and bioactive compounds for human health. (Photo by: David Bailey, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)