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Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.

Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.
Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.
Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.
Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.
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Dick, Henry
Nighttime AUV Sentry recovery operations with Clindor Cacho on the line.
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06/10/2013
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Depart Bridgetown, Barbados on Voyage #210-05. Upon completion of science activities, the vessel shall call upon the port of Woods Hole, MA on or about 19 June 2013. The science objectives of this cruise will include understanding the processes controlling the formation, evolution and linking of mid-segment detachment faults, and to examine the relationship between magma supply along the ridge axis and detachment fault formation. The scientific plan will be to obtain regional multibeam bathymetry and magnetic data to understand the spreading history out to 5 Ma. High-resolution multibeam bathymetry, magnetic, CTD and optical sensor data will be collected from the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, and photographs from the WHOI TowCam. There will also be an extensive dredging operation.
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Clindor Cacho, a crewmember on R/V Knorr handles a tag line to steady the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry while recovering the vehicle in 2013 near Barbados. Sentry carried a suite of sensors on its deployments that included a magnetometer so that scientists could trace the history of seafloor spreading in the region. In the 1960s, magnetometry data helped bring together seafloor spreading and continental drift into the theory of plate tectonics.
Photo by Henry Dick
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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