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Alvin returns to service

Following a scheduled overhaul and U.S. Navy recertification, the famed submersible is ready to resume its scientific duties

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Alvin underwater
Quest was purchased by Shackleton
Alvin underwater
Atlantis and Alvin
Eyes on the deep submarine background
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coral
Mar de Plata canyon
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illustration of weddell seal mother in the water
Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser examines an iceberg
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is supporting a two-year study to quantify carbon storage in both natural and restored eelgrass meadows in  coastal waters. ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
New research suggests basking sharks actively feed during
long
-
distance migrations
rather than relying solely on stored energy reserves, as previously assumed for many migratory
sharks. (Photo by Amy Kukulya, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Evii Tong, a WHOI research assistant, patches a sampled
Orbicella faveolata
colony. (Photo by Mariya Galochkina, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Titanic sinking with mummy's tomb
wave in the ocean
(Photo by Paul Caiger, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Alvin sphere near redfield
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Oleander through two rocks
Alvin and the swordfish
whoi dock aerial
An ocean bottom seismometer being deployed by the Ocean Bottom Scismic Instrument Center during a research expedition to the Gofar transform fault in the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Hannah Brewer, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
The entrance to Room 71. (Photo by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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