NENUE I adrift off the Kona coast of the big island of Hawaii. This raft served as an instrument platform among other uses.

1962

4380

Retrieving a bathythermograph at the end of a cast off a Navy oceanographic ship.

4381

Diver collecting specimens and observing bottom organisms

New York, Long Island, Jones Inlet

4382

Camera sled being deployed

Georgia, off Brunswick

4383

Deploying a Nansen bottle, used for measuring sub-surface temperature and to collect water samples for analysis.

4384

The BCF GERONIMO, research vessel for the Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory at Virginia Key, Miami. Like its sister ship, the UNDAUNTED, it is a converted sea-going tug. It is 143 feet long, has twin diesel engines, and a cruising range of 9,500 miles.

4385

The submersible ASHERAH which is used by the BCF in Hawaiian waters.

4386

Preparing instruments on a makeshift floating instrumented platform.

4387

The two man submersible ASHERAH operating with the BCF vessel TOWNSEND CROMWELL in Hawaiian waters.

1965 September 26

4388

Member of scientific party of Pacific Oceanographic Group (POG) removing sample after tow from cod end of a POG plankton net.

4389

Deploying high-speed plankton sampler from BCF vessel.

4390

Submersible ASHERAH at the Whaling City Dredge and Dock Corporation facility. The ASHERAH was built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics. This photo was taken before delivery to the BCF in Honolulu fur use in Hawaiian waters.

Connecticut, Groton 1965

4391

Deploying the bathythermograph from the Fisheries Research Vessel HUGH M. SMITH in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Pacific Ocean 1957 circa

4392

Deploying an early model STD or CTD instrument with water sample bottles above.

California, San Diego area 1965 ca.

4393

A bathythermograph being deployed by lanyard from the Fisheries Research Vessel HUGH M. SMITH

Pacific Ocean 1957 circa

4394

Deploying a bathythermograph from a fisheries research vessel. The bathythermograph is one of the standard tools of the oceanographer. It draws a continuous trace of water temperature to a depth of 450 feet.