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Life aboard the Okeanos Explorer
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 (l-r) CDR Pica, LT VerPlanck, and ENS Griffin navigate the ship into San Francisco Bay. |
 An oceanographic tradition, the science party shrank the first set of Styrofoam cups on an EX CTD cast. |
 SST Elaine Stuart crimps copper tubing for helium sampling on a water column exploration cruise. |
 Chief ETs Eric Thompson (left) and Richard Conway (right) re-terminate the CTD cable. |
 Physical Scientist, Mashkoor Malik (right) trains Intern David Armstrong (left) how to edit multibeam data in CARIS. |
 GVA Jack Standfast gets in position to repair the block on the J-frame. |
 Ron Greene, of OSU, collects water samples from a CTD cast to test for helium concentration. |
 P. Scott Hill, of NGDDC, gets initiated to science on the EX by donning a bit of extra safety gear for an XBT cast |
 CDR Pica (left) observes ENS Bloss’ shiphandling skills as he guides the ship out of its berth at pier 90 to depart Seattle for the beginning of the field season. |
 SST Colleen Peters was the first to drive the new small boat. |
 ENS Griffin (left) gets some tips on shiphandling from the CO, CDR Joseph Pica (right) while bringing the ship into Seattle. |
 A small pod of White-sided dolphins were spotted near the ship while mapping a volcano field in the vicinity of Mendocino Ridge |
 Interns Michelle Heller and Joel DeMello conduct an XBT cast to collect sound velocity data for the multibeam sonar. |
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