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Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.

Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.
Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.
Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.
Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.
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Cruise members rowing back to Atlantis in the whale boat.
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01/01/1948
at-654.tif
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Mediterranean cruise, (l-r) unidentified, unidentified, Jim Bailey, Bill Cooper.
Image of The Day caption:
Members of a 1947-48 cruise row back R/V Atlantis to the (visible in the background). The primary purpose of the six-month "Med Cruise" was to prepare bathymetric charts of the Agean seafloor in the event of a Soviet naval threat coming from the Black Sea. At the time, making such maps was done using the relatively new single-beam echo-sounders that measured the distance to a single point beneath an instrument trailed over the side of the ship. Today, the same work is carried out much more efficiently and with much more accuracy using modern multi-beam sonar systems mounted on the bottom of a ship's hull.
Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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