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Engineering assistant Michael McCarthy (left) and senior engineering assistant Neil McPhee work to assemble the surface buoy for a GumbyMoor, a new mooring design that allows the line to stretch to twice its length in order to overcome the tug of swift currents and wild ocean weather. Recently, a mooring with this new design was deployed off of Grenada for a volcano-monitoring project. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)