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Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.

Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.
Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.
Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.
Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.
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Lippsett, Lonny
Summer student intern Logan Driscoll.
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08/13/2013
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 51, No. 1, pg. 28:
I was just a freshman studying mechanical engineering at Tufts University, looking for a job to get some experience. I grew up in Falmouth and knew some people at WHOI. So I talked with some of the engineers, and they hired me as intern in the summer of 2011. That summer, I did a lot of hands-on jobs, just getting familiar with systems. I knew nothing about Alvin going into this and nothing about oceanographic engineering, except some basic physics from freshman year. My first task was taking an inventory of implodable items on the outside of the sub, like lights and cameras. I was taught how to inspect them. My boss would say, Be careful with that, its worth a quarter of a million dollars. Eventually, I got more responsibility and helped the engineers with pressure-testing hundreds of blocks of syntactic foam for the sub. (continued.)
Photo by Lonny Lippsett
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