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Ship Shape

WHOI researchers prepare to make a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) survey of an old shipwreck that washed up on the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Mass. in March 2008  Geologist Adam Soule (second from left) fixes the position of the LIDAR with a global positioning system locator while engineer Craig Johnson (far left) and geologists Rob Evans and Dan Fornari (far right) look on. Soule doesn’t usually study shipwrecks, but he took advantage of the opportunity to test and demonstrate the new gear for his colleagues and to collect three-dimensional images of the ghost ship for local archaeologists.
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)