Sparring on the Dock

Engineers Will Ostrom (foreground) and Dan Duffany prepare to test the ballast of a spar buoy off the WHOI dock in July 2008. The buoy was built as a replacement for one that was destroyed during rough North Atlantic weather that battered the research vessel Knorr during a 2007 cruise for the CLIMODE project.

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)