Ships
Gift enables new investments in ocean technologies
A grant from the Coleman and Susan Burke Foundation has allowed WHOI to make crucial investments in remote technology that enhance research innovation at sea. New video monitors aboard the…
Illuminating the Ocean with Sound
WHOI’s new research vessel Niel Armstrong is equipped with an EK80 broadband acoustic echo sounder. Using a…
The Quest for the Moho
For more than a century, scientists have made several attempts to drill a hole through…
Remembering Knorr
After an iconic, 44-year career, the research vessel Knorr left the dock at Woods Hole…
Our Ship Comes In
The long-awaited newest research vessel in the U.S. academic fleetâand the latest in a long…
Farewell to the Knorr
Over its 44-year career, the retiring research vessel Knorr was on the scene for many…
Bringing Alvin Back on Board
Crew members of the research vessel Atlantis play crucial roles in recovering the submersible after…
Ready, Set, Dive
Before scientists go to work in the morning at the bottom of the ocean in…
Rebuilding Alvin: Al Suchy
From the beginning of 2011 to May 2013, Alvin, the U.S. science community’s only human-occupied…
Rebuilding Alvin: Dutch Wegman
From the beginning of 2011 to May 2013, Alvin, the U.S. science community’s only human-occupied…
Rebuilding Alvin: Patrick Hennessy
From the beginning of 2011 to May 2013, Alvin, the U.S. science community’s only human-occupied…
A Long Voyage to Get a New Ship
On a cold, blustery day in April 1997, hundreds of people swarmed Iselin Dock at…
New Head of WHOI Fleet Comes Aboard
<!– –> Sometimes, a career change has the feel of deferred destiny. “I was in…
She’s Got the Whole Fleet in Her Hands
For oceanographers, going to sea isn’t as simple as driving to the dock, climbing on…
Of Sons and Ships and Science Cruises
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has had an unbroken line of three ships named Atlantis…
Two Ships Passing Passengers in the Night
Into the frigid darkness, following two days of stormy weather, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s coastal…
Three Ships and a Sub
short stories of ships and vehicles for fall 2005
The Improbable Voyage of Al Woodcock
Al Woodcock, perhaps the last man to sail on the maiden voyage of WHOI's first…
Replacing the Fleet
When R/V Atlantis arrived in Woods Hole for the first time on a bright, beautiful…
WHOI and Access to the Sea
In the mid-term future, two WHOI ships (Knorr in about 2006 and Oceanus in about…
A Northern Winter
As the 1996-1997 ship schedule began to take shape in 1995, we learned that Voyage…
Access to the Sea
Oceanographic fieldwork has traditionally meant going to sea on a ship. In recent years, it…