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Science on a New Ship

Crew members and technicians on WHOI’s new ship R/V Neil Armstrong deploy a deepwater mooring off Cape Hatteras—the first mooring deployment from the Armstrong. Bosun Peter Liarikos uses hand signals (fist in the air signals ‘stop’) to communicate with winch operator Amy Simoneau (gray sweatshirt) as mooring operations leader John Kemp (in front of winch) supervises and scientists look on. Current meters (ADCPs) are aloft on the line, and the yellow buoyancy float is visible astern. the Armstrong is making a series of voyages to test its systems and understand how scientists will use them to study the ocean.

(Photo by P.E. Robbins, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)