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Alvin’s Nervous System
A 150-pound mass of copper wires, coaxial cable, connectors, and insulating jackets is guided by Alvin Electronics Technician and Pilot-in-Training Chris Lathan, who stands on top of the sub. The…
Read MoreGetting in Shape
Fabricator Paul Keith uses a wood template to check the curve of a metal part he was shaping for use on the research submarine Alvin. The titanium piece was destined…
Read MoreNext Best Thing
Typically, a common oceanographic instrument known as an eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) are deployed by hand from research and cargo ships to collect a variety of data including temperature and depth.…
Read MoreOld Layers, New Insights
Last Spring, a Nor’easter blew through Cape Cod and exposed the paleolithic under-layers of Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. The Coastal Systems Group and National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility…
Read MoreBlowhards
Four researchers sit in an inflatable boat waiting for a sperm whale to surface. From left, Michael Moore, Director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center; Andreas Fahlman, Texas A&M University;…
Read MoreFlotation Fit
When newly made blocks of syntactic foam for the upgraded Alvin submersible arrived from the manufacturer, WHOI research engineer Rod Catanach tested each to ensure they fit correctly. The “raw”…
Read MoreKeyhole in a Storm
An unusual shape on the main deck of the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr is called a “keyhole cut out,” and it once provided deck hands a position near the bow for…
Read MoreDive Prep
On June 22, 2012, the new personnel sphere of the research submarine Alvin underwent testing to certify that it will be safe for human occupation to depths up to 6,500…
Read MoreBeautiful Day for TowCam
Teacher-at-Sea Beverly Owens captured this photo of TowCam just before WHOI engineers Erich Horgan and Ben Pietro deployed it as part of the Canyons CSI research cruise off the U.S.…
Read MoreBlue Hawaii
From a small boat, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Max Kaplan stretches out to retrieve a drifter buoy from waters off Hawaii. In May 2013 Kaplan and WHOI biologist Aran Mooney…
Read MoreRockets’ Wet Glare
What looks like a nighttime fireworks display on a fine summer night actually couldn’t be further from the truth. This spring, a team led by WHOI senior scientist Rocky Geyer…
Read MoreFormative Experience
When WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin was a high school student in China, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city of Tangshan, killing 250,000 people. The event inspired Lin to study…
Read MoreShadowing Whales
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop snapped this quick self-portrait as she prepared to locate a whale tag with a VHF antenna in the spring of 2013.…
Read MoreHunting Radioactivity
Japanese biologist, Hiroomi Miyamoto, checks on an aerosol sampler during the 2011 R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa cruise off the northeast coast of Japan near Fukushima. The sampler, which was fastened to the top…
Read MoreDeep Partners
Filmaker and explorer James Cameron (left) presented an amazing gift to WHOI in March: the 24-foot vehicle that a little over a year ago he used to reach the deepest…
Read MoreSea (Work) Horse
With it’s live broadcasts and imaging and lighting systems donated by James Cameron, the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is the star attraction of the ongoing Oases2013 cruise. But…
Read MoreA Sub Goes to Washington
On June 11, explorer and director James Cameron took his submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to Washington, D.C., as part of a cross-country tour ending in Woods Hole. While in the nation’s…
Read MoreQuick Change
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus returned from the seafloor to the R/V Falkor in autonomous mode during the Oases 2013 cruise recently. Nereus is unique for the fact that it…
Read MoreNew Friends
Alvin Pilot Bruce Strickrott, snapped this photo during Alvin’s 3,906th dive on July 18, 2003. The team had to do a little bit of maneuvering to catch this evasive red squid,…
Read MoreProfiling a Turbulent Sea
Scientist Lou St. Laurent and engineer Ken Decoteau (both of WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate student Uriel Zajaczkovski (right to left) prepare a deep microstructure profiler for deployment…
Read MoreAir Travel at Sea
Soaring above it all, scientist Ralph Stephen transferred via bosun’s cradle from the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution to the R/V Fred H. Moore, in the Atlantic south of Bermuda in…
Read MoreWhirlpool in a Jar
Postdoctoral investigator Jean-Baptiste Gilet (right) points to a vortex, a small whirlpool that’s similar to a tornado in air, that was created in a container of colored water in scientist…
Read MoreNew Eyes on the Deep
A new pair of cameras on the hybrid-remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus claims a distinguished pedigree: they were part of a recent gift by explorer and director James Cameron to…
Read MoreMaking a Splash
A bucket of ice-cold water is the traditional greeting for people returning from their first dive in the submersible Alvin. Here, WHOI data manager Scott McCue is ritually doused aboard…
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