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Alcatraz Island with San Francisco in the background
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A Black Footed Albatross runs
atop the surface before becoming airborne.
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Oceanographers and Deck
Department recovering the Bongo Nets.
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Cape Disapointment with Lighthouse.
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ENS Paul Householder and ENS
Stephen Barry make preparations for departure from San Francisco, CA.
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Scientists at work in the
ship's dry lab following a day's operations.
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Crewmambers dressed out in turnout gear
approach the scene of interest during a weekly fire drill.
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Observers at work on the
flying bridge, where the "big eye binoculars" live.
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Approaching the Golden Gate
and heading out to sea.
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Humpback whale blow.
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Humpback whale breaching.
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AB Kevin Lackey with his
oceanographic instrament of choice: the XBT probe.
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An Orca breaching.
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Teacher at Sea, Kim Pratt,
tries her "Gumby" survival suit on for size during abandon ship
drills.
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McARTHUR II approaches the Ballard Bridge in Seattle enroute
to the Puget
Sound and
Pacific
Ocean.
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Wiper Luke Staiger and 3AE Jim Reed at work in the generator room.
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A Humpback whale breaks the
surface as McARTHUR II holds station in the
background.
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McARTHUR II holding station off Palmyra
Atoll lagoon.
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McARTHUR II underway at a slow bell.
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Photograph taken through
night-vision scope of lava flow on the island of Hawaii.
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North Beach, Palmyra Atoll.
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McARTHUR II veteran LTJG Kate Peet and ENS Paul Smidansky on
bridge wing.
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Calm seas and late afternoon
off the Olympic Coast, WA.
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Sunset on Palmyra Atoll.
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A scientist identifies an Orca
by comparing its dorsal fin to cataloged dorsal fin images.
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Teacher at Sea, Kim Pratt.
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Abandoned aircraft on Palmyra
Atoll.
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McARTHUR II's
small boat heading into the Palmyra Atoll lagoon.
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Steam generated by lava
flowing into the ocean from the island of Hawaii.
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Low-level clouds at sunset
near the equator.
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Sunset and calm seas near Hawaiian Islands.
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A Tufted Puffin.
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Pacific white-sided dolphins
leaping alondside the McARTHUR
II.
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