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Up From the South

A gift from the Carnegie Institution’s Dry Tortugas laboratory when it closed, the 70-foot (21-meter) Anton Dohrn made 40 cruises from 1940 to 1947 for WHOI investigations from the Gulf of Maine to the coast of New Jersey. The vessel was heavily timbered and drew a shallow draft, ideal for work in the shallow, coral-filled waters of the Florida coast where it worked. Long-time marine superintendent Dick Edwards once said it took eight bilge pumps to keep Anton Dohrn afloat in the waters off the Northeast.(Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)