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Three ships, one ocean twilight zone
In May 2021, members of WHOI’s Ocean Twilight Zone project braved the rough seas of the Northeast Atlantic aboard the Spanish research vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa. Their mission: locate the spring phytoplankton bloom and measure how carbon moves through the mysterious mid-ocean “twilight zone.”
The Sarmiento joined two other research vessels funded by NASA’s EXPORTS program to intensively study the area. This remarkable and rare coordination of 150 scientists from several organizations, and crew on three different ships, was years in the making.
Watch as the WHOI research team, led by Ken Buesseler and Heidi Sosik, deploys innovative new imaging technologies and hauls up hundreds of fascinating specimens from the deep sea. Along the way, you’ll gain an endless appreciation for the vast, weird, and wonderful ocean twilight zone – without getting wet.
Read MoreA Tale of Three Ships
The WHOI research vessels Crawford, Atlantis, and Gosnold (left to right) were all in Woods Hole, Mass., on this warm day in 1963. The Crawford, a 125-foot Coast Guard cutter […]
Read MoreShipshape on Land and at Sea
These colorful straps and ropes—or lines, as they are known on a ship—were photographed hanging outside the rigging van of John Kemp aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Kemp, […]
Read MoreFour Ships Pass
Two Ships
A Parade of Ships
A U.S. Navy Yard Patrol (YP) boat passes the Navy-owned, WHOI-operated R/V Neil Armstrong as it prepares to dock during the Fleet Week Parade of Ships in […]
Read MoreTwo Ships Bat
This summer marked the first time that the research vessels Atlantis and Neil Armstrong made a port call in Woods Hole at the same time, and the two […]
Read MoreTwo Ships Passing
The research vessels Atlantis (foreground) and Thomas G. Thompson sailed the same seas for a brief time in the summer of 2009. If they seem to look a alike, […]
Read MoreDown to the Sea in Ships (and Satellites and Robots…)
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott takes you inside Ocean Science 3.0 and the future of ocean exploration. Presentation given on July 29, 2016 at the Marine Biological Laboratory as […]
Read MoreTwo Ships
After R/V Knorr (now Rio Tecolutla) departed Woods Hole for the last time earlier in March, the ship headed south to its new home in Mexico. Along the way, off the coast […]
Read MorePlanes, Trains & Ships
John F. Kennedy was president and summering in Hyannisport on Cape Cod when this photo of the original WHOI dock was taken in 1962. Pictured are four WHOI research […]
Read MoreShips Out of Water
Two vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet, Atlantis (foreground) and Neil Armstrong, rest stern-to-stern in dry dock in Charleston, […]
Read MoreTraditional Relationships
A group from WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group, including Katie Castagno (grey shirt) and Michelle O’Donnell (far right), led a field lesson this summer for Mashpee Wampanoag students as part […]
Read MoreTwin Sister Ships
The R/V Neil Armstrong (left) and its yet-unnamed sister ship (currently designated AGOR-28) sit side-by-side under construction in Anacortes, Wash. In selecting WHOI to operate one of the two […]
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Sibling Ships
The research vessel Oceanus was greeted by its little sibling, Asterias, near Woods Hole. After its arrival in Woods Hole in November 1975, Oceanus proved to be a workhorse, with […]
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The 274-foot R/V Atlantis (left) and 177-foot R/V Oceanus dock at the WHOI pier in November 2005. A similar sight greeted retired WHOI Capt. Larry Bearse when he […]
Read MoreMaking Things Shipshape
Shipshape
Multi-purpose Ships
Two Ships Pass
Ships passing in the night
The Research Vessel Atlantis leaves port in Lake Union, Seattle, en route to Victoria, Canada.
The ship on the right, M/V Alucia, was originally the Institut français […]
