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Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain

Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain
Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain
Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain
Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain
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Munns, Robert G.
Group putting buoy in the water from the deck of Chain
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01/01/1961
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Paul Stimpson in dark shirt and light shorts. Chuck Wilkins in checkered shirt. Bill Richardson to right of Wilkins.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, Pg. 45:
Early buoys (left) were fragile-looking doughnut-shaped foam wrapped in fiberglass. Advances in design and materials produced much sturdier buoys capable of surviving months of deployment in the harshest seas. Today’s buoys (above) are disc shaped, made of epoxy-and-glass syntactic foam and sheathed in metal. They carry an array of meteorological sensors above the water and instruments on mooring lines below the surface. Above, WHOI researchers repair a buoy in the
Gulf Stream that was probably damaged by a ship.
Photo by Robert G. Munns
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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