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John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.

John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.
John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.
John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.
John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.
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Kukulya, Amy
John Kemp (center) directing the deployment of an OOI surface buoy.
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05/26/2016
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Image Of the Day caption:
John Kemp, head of the WHOI Mooring Operations & Engineering Group, directs the deployment of a surface mooring from the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Common moorings, which use anchors and cables or ropes to secure boats, channel markers, and other floating objects in fixed places are familiar sites in our local waterways. Oceanographic moorings work in the same way, but the lines can be thousands of meters long and the top float may not be visible at the surface. Scientific instruments can be attached to the mooring line, mounted on a surface buoy, or made to climb up and down the underwater line.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 31:
John Kemp, head of the WHOI Mooring Operations & Engineering Group, directs the deployment of a surface mooring from the research vessel Neil Armstrong at the Pioneer Array south of Martha's Vineyard. Pioneer is one of several newly established long-term ocean observatories.
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Photo by Amy Kukulya
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