We use cookies to improve your experience, some are essential for the operation of this site.

John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.

John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.
John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.
John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.
John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.
Comments (0)
75278
Linder, Christopher
John Kemp in basket retrieving Puma.
Still Image
09/11/2007
graphics/agave2/cl_20070720_agave07_puma_149.jpg
Image Of the Day caption:
In 2007, John Kemp was lowered in a metal basket from the icebreaker Oden to try to retrieve an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Puma visible just beneath Kemp's long metal pole. Kemp, who heads WHOI's Mooring Operations and Engineering Group, pushed aside ice floes with the pole to free the vehicle, hook it, and bring it back on board. During the expedition, scientists pioneered the use of AUVs in polar waters as they searched for hydrothermal vents and associated deep-sea life forms on the Arctic Ocean seafloor.
Caption from Oceanus magazine Vol. 46, No. 2, Pg. 25:
BASKET CATCH––There's a joke aboard ship that John Kemp will miss no opportunity to get into a ship's crane-operated metal basket. Oden's chief officer, Ola Andersson, lowered the basket toward the ice, reaching slightly underneath the ship and along its hull. For several tense minutes, neither Kemp nor anyone else saw Puma, and we wondered if it had disappeared under the ice or under the ship. Then Japan's National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology geochemist Ko-ichi Nakamura saw Puma's nose peeking out from under an ice floe. Andersson maneuvered Kemp toward it. With a long metal pole, Kemp pushed aside ice floes to free Puma. Nearly 22 hours after he had let Puma loose, Kemp grabbed hold of it again and brought it back on board.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Labels
This item includes these files
Image
Image
Collections