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Last updated Monday, April 19, 2004

Photo Album 27

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The styrofoam cups are lowered along with the rosettes during a CTD cast. Here they have just emerged from the great depths and show signs of being pressurized!
As we approached the buoy in the RHIB, we noticed many barnacles beneath the black water line as the buoy bobbed in the waves.
After being compressed by the intense pressure found nearly 5000 meters below the ocean, a large styrofoam cup shrinks to a miniature size.
Kirby and Don, our NASA scientists, work together on their iron limitation study. Paul, our Chief Scientist, and Dave, our buoy technician, discuss the second half of the trip in the computer lab. Ensign Sarah Dunsford poses after conducting a CTD cast.
Another glimpse of the buoy about to be retrieved at 5°S, 140°W.    

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