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Service with a Smile

WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Sentry, is launched from the research vessel Thomas Thompson in August 2008 during the AUV’s first scientific expedition. The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several proposed deep-water sites for seafloor instruments that will be deployed in the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Pictured are WHOI engineers James Kinsey and Andy Billings, both from the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering. (Photo by Erich Horgan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)