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 Photo: Lt Michael Levine, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The Oscar Dyson in front of Mount Shishaldin located on Unimak Island, Alaska. One of the many volcanoes on the Aleutian Island chain. |
 Photo: Lt Jeff Shoup, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Scientists and crew deploy a mooring in the Bering Sea off the stern. |
 Photo: Lt Jeff Shoup, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The mooring named “Oscar” was successfully deployed on a rare calm day on the Bering Sea. |
 Photo: Lt Jeff Shoup, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Two crew members of a fire team are dressed out and prepared to man the hose during a weekly fire drill. |
 Photo: Lt Michael Levine, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson A Bongo plankton net being recovered in Shelikof Straight using the starboard side A-frame. |
 Photo: Skilled Fisherman Dennis Boggs, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson An Bald Eagle sits atop the mast next to the Alaska State flag in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. |
 Photo: Lt Michael Levine, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson A Neuston tow, a plankton net that samples the surface, is deployed off the hero deck with the starboard side a-frame |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Skilled Fisherman Dennis Boggs climbs down to the work boat Peggy D alongside the Oscar Dyson in Three Saints Bay, Kodiak Island. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The US Coast Guard Base in Kodiak, Alaska performs helicopter rescue drills with the Oscar Dyson frequently. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson On approach, the rescue basket is lowered to the ship’s deck during a helicopter drill with the USCG of Kodiak, Alaska. |
 Photo: Lt Michael Levine, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson From left to right: Deck Utility Kirk Perry of the Okeanos Explorer, XO Let Mike Levine, and Skilled Fisherman Dennis Boggs wait for the rescue basket to touch the deck during a helicopter rescue drill with the USCG of Kodiak, Alaska. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson XO LT Mike Levine keeps tension on the cable during rescue drills with a US Coast Guard helicopter from the Kodiak base. |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson ENS Russell Pate, a NOAA certified diver and Junior Officer on the Dyson, slides down the ramp on the stern for a hull inspection dive. |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson ENS Russell Pate waits in the water for the other NOAA divers. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson CDR Mike Hoshlyk, Commanding Officer of the Dyson in Three Saints Bay, Kodiak, Alaska. |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Lead Fisherman Patrick Kriegh (left) and Fisherman Glen Whitney (right) take advantage of a sunny day to paint the trawl doors like the Alaska Flag. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The new trawl doors will be painted with the Alaska flag to look like the spare doors mounted here on the stern of the Oscar Dyson. |
 Photo LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson From afar the 208 ft vessel looks tiny. The Oscar Dyson in Three Saints Bay during an acoustic calibration. |
 Photo: Chief Boatswain Willie Sliney – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Team Dyson competes in the survival suit race at Kodiak’s Crab Festival. (Left to Right: Fisherman Glen Whitney, Fisherman Eric Danielson, Skilled Fisherman Dennis Boggs, Lead Fisherman Patrick Kriegh. |
 Photo: Chief Boatswain Willie Sliney – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The deck crew of the Oscar Dyson competing in the Survival Suit Race, part of Crab Festival in Kodiak, Alaska. |
 Photo: Chief Boatswain Willie Sliney – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson For the Kodiak Crab Festival Survival Suit race each team must run 50 yards, don their survival suits, and swim 50 yards to the life raft (top left next to the work boat Peggy D.). |
 Photo: Chief Boatswain Willie Sliney – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson The Blessing of the Fleet: A Crab Festival tradition where local Kodiak Fishermen take their vessels under a stream of blessed water from the Oscar Dyson’s fire hose to assure a successful fishing season. |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson FLT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny suns on the stern of the Dyson on a rare warm summer day in Alaska. |
 Photo: Survey Technician Jay Sheehan – NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Scientist Chris Wilson, NWFSC, and CDR Mike Hoshlyk, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, demonstrate their conflict problem solving techniques |
 Photo: CDR Mike Hoshlyk – Commanding Officer, NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Three NOAA Corps officers dock the ship in Kodiak, Alaska. Left to Right: LT Jeff Shoup, LT Mike Levine, LT(jg) Select Faith Opatrny |
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