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Forty years after the Titanic discovery, WHOI continues to advance ocean research and exploration

How cutting-edge technology, novel search techniques, and persistence paid off

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WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy overlaying an aerial photo of Peanut Island in Florida. (Portrait by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Background image by Maxime Doré, Unsplash)
Ostrander
The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure
typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of
the ziggurats. (Photo credits: Reed Goodman, Clemson University)
ship
Port side of the <em>Titanic</em> bow, the two capstans and the port and starboard anchor chains are visible. (©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Jennifer Johnson tests acoustic technology from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock. (Photo by Scott Loranger)
whoi dock aerial
truck
WHOI Physical Oceanographer Steven Jayne and MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Lawrence Cen take part in a training flight ahead of peak hurricane season. (Photo by Manny Haenggi, Naval Oceanographic Office)
Plastic waste is ubiquitous in the global environment. A new report highlights plastic pollution as a grave and growing danger to health (Tom Kleindinst © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Perkins School students visit WHOI’s Seafloor Samples laboratory
morning catch
Researchers deploy a sensor-laden tripod to measure currents and salinity in the Delaware River. The effort, set against the backdrop of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, is part of an NSF-funded study on estuarine transport in collaboration with Rutgers and the University of Delaware. (Photo by Dave Ralston, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
WHOI’s Chris Reddy, 2025 ACS Fellow (Photo by: Daniel Hentz, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
A group of divers swim with a sandbar shark off Jupiter, Florida.

JESUS OLARTE/AFP via Getty Images
(© Woods Hole Oceanographic institution)
gold mines
Rosanna Xia of the L.A. Times interviews WHOI's Chris Reddy and David Valentine of UC Santa Barbara. (Photo by: Daniel Hentz, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy holds a jarred Sargassum sample
shells
ocean
Two bowhead whales travel through an Arctic ice channel. (Photo credit: Amelia Brower/NOAA Fisheries/AFSC/MML &amp; North Slope Borough. NMFS Permit No. 14245AFSC)
the landfall
Fish ready to be sold at a market in Accra, Ghana. (Photo by: Praise Nuna Nkowrnyui, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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