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Jaguar being tended to on deck.

Jaguar being tended to on deck.
Jaguar being tended to on deck.
Jaguar being tended to on deck.
Jaguar being tended to on deck.
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Linder, Christopher
Jaguar being tended to on deck.
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09/11/2007
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With another crisis resolved and Jaguar once again safely on board, it was safe to make jokes. Indeed, making jokes relieved the tension. A robot that doesn't seem to hear your instructions? Sounds like my teenager, someone said. "You know how kids take years off your lives?" Reves-Sohn said with a grin. A running joke on board has been why robotic underwater vehicles designed to return home had feline names, given cats' well-known reluctance to be trained to fetch and heel. Reves-Sohn agreed that if he had to do it all over again, he would think about giving the vehicles dogs' names. Photographer Chris Linder said Jaguar had only seven lives left. "Maybe six," Kemp said. "It lost more than one in its first recovery." There also has been a running discussion about whether Puma and Jaguar should be referred to as a "he," "she," or "it." Following the serial adventures on Polar Discovery's "Today on the Ice," my wife offered her opinion via e-mail: "I know Jaguar is male because a female would have stopped to ask directions." Jaguar has had its ups and down, and-fortunately-ups again.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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