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Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.

Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.
Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.
Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.
Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.
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Doucette, Jayne H
Jim Broda standing at the ship's rail in front of the main winch spool.
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10/26/2014
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Departure from WHOI dock on Knorr cruise KN223 from 10/26/2014 to 12/02/2014. This is the final scheduled WHOI science cruise for Knorr and the Long Core system.
Cruise Chief Sci is Steven D'hondt of the University of Rhode Island.
The science objectives of this cruise will be long piston coring, gravity coring, multi-coring, CTD/Niskin operations; multi-beam and 3.5 kHz mapping of sites; shipboard studies of interstitial water chemistry; shipboard core logging; shipboard sampling for geochemistry, microbiology, paleo-oceanography.
Image Of the Day caption:
WHOI senior research specialist Jim Broda stands on deck of R/V Knorr in front of the Long Core system's main winch just prior to Knorr's departure from WHOI on its final science cruise. The rope on the winch is actually twelve high-strength, low-friction ropes braided together into a single line more than 7,000 meters (4.2 miles) long. With 5,000 meters (3 miles) of line out and under a 25,000-pound load, the rope will only stretch about 2 meters (6 feet). This is crucial to reducing rebound as the system pulls the long, heavy cores out of the seabed.
Photo by Jayne Doucette
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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