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Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.

Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.
Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.
Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.
Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.
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ROV Kraken-2, University of Connecticut
Anchor being uplifted for hauling off the seafloor by ROV Kraken-2.
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10/24/2017
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U. Conn ROV team led by Kevin Joy.
Image Of the Day caption:
Crabs and shrimp investigate a cast-steel anchor for a mooring resting 125 meters below the surface at the Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory off the Massachusetts coast operated by WHOI and funded by the National Science Foundations Ocean Observatories Initiative. When moorings are recovered, technicians use a hauling line to recover the anchor too. In this case, a spool containing the hauling line for this anchor was fouled, and the anchor could not be retrieved as planned. Instead, a remotely operated undersea vehicle from the University of Connecticut was used to attach an alternate recovery line (blue line), which enabled a successful anchor retrieval.
Photo courtesy of ROV Kraken-2, University of Connecticut
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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