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Strong Arm Tactics

Bringing a 274-foot research vessel to rest is not for the faint-of-back. Pete Liarikos, bosun on R/V Neil Armstrong, lent a hand recently in helping secure R/V Atlantis to the WHOI pier after the ship had just returned from a study of the planet’s largest plankton bloom, which occurs each year in the North Atlantic. Liarikos and his crew will be headed out to the same region later this summer on a pair of cruises to tend moorings in the OOI Irminger Sea and OSNAP arrays. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)