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Up From the Deep

WHOI engineer Miles Ochs (foreground) takes up slack on a winch while Mooring Operations Group leader John Kemp checks tension on the line. The two were part of a recent cruise designed to test the scientific and gear handling capabilities of the new research vessel Neil Armstrong. Their quary was a large mooring anchor on the continental shelf about 100 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.(Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)