The Old Ways

On a recent cruise on board the University of Washington’s R/V Thomas G. Thompson, WHOI research associate Marshall Swartz and crewmembers Brian Clampitt and Paul Benecki (left to right) worked together on a bit of old-fashioned seamanship. The trio teamed up reinforce a strain relief—the point where a reinforced tether attached to the depressor for the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus.(Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)