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Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.

Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.
Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.
Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.
Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.
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Travis, Rebecca
Coastal Surface Mooring components stowed on the fantail of the ship.
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03/24/2018
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Every six months, the imposing, sensor-laden moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array need to be turnedhauled out of the water and substituted with clean, repaired, and freshly charged replacements. Working in the ocean at the edge of New Englands continental shelf has many challenges, including unpredictable weather and sometimes turbulent seas. Maneuvering moorings into and out of the water from the deck of a ship is itself no easy feat: It requires skill, experience, and seamless coordination between scientists and crew. The blue-and-yellow buoys of the three Coastal Surface Moorings pictured here each weigh about 10,000 pounds, and their gray anchor frames, loaded with instruments, weigh another 10,000.
R/V Neil Armstrong cruise AR28-A.
The Pioneer-10 cruise will consist of two separate legs with distinct objectives. The main objectives of Leg A are to deploy and recover three Coastal Surface Moorings (CSMs), deploy up to six and recover up to six Coastal Pioneer (CP) Gliders, and deploy two AUVs (singly or simultaneously) for ship-attended missions.
Photo by Rebecca Travis
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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