Georges Bank starting to kick up a little bit.

Georges Bank starting to kick up a little bit. The bow of the ALBATROSS IV slamming down into a swell.

A lost blue heron hitching a ride at sea.

A blue heron resting up before trying to find his way back to land.

A cargo vessel caught in the rays of the setting sun.

The DELAWARE II just before slamming down into an oncoming swell.

The DELAWARE II headed down into a swell.

YEEHAW!!! Oh for a life on the rolling sea! DELAWARE II stirring up landlubbers stomachs.

YEEHAW!!! What great weather!! Numerous weak stomachs helped feed the fish that night.

Leaning into the roll. About a 25 degree roll from the stance of the sailor.

DELAWARE II at night.

Testing a Kilgore Rocket Line-throwing gun on the ALBATROSS IV.

Sometimes fisheries folks do the darndest things!

Why this is being done is too complicated to explain.

Dumping the catch into the sorting bin. Yellow line is chafing gear for riding below the cod end on the bottom.

Fisheries scientist with a flounder.

A haul of shrimp, squid, and red crabs on the sorting table.

Fisheries biologists sorting, counting, and measuring various species.

An ugly fish and a redfish on the deck of the ALBATROSS IV

A cutlass fish

Strange deepwater fish coming up from about 100 fathoms. Anglerfish and others.

Types of deepwater anglerfish.

Cobia in baskets - caught off the Carolinas. Cobias opportunistically associate with burrowing stingrays and eat food displaced by rays.

A huge sting ray off the Carolinas. This fish was put back in the water alive.

Letting the sting ray go.

Two mola mola on the sorting table. Bongo nets in right foreground.

Tom Fontiero, lead fisherman on the ALBATROSS IV, in center. Holding a large cod.

Humpback whale off Massachusetts coast

Sunrise on the way to Ketchikan

Sunrise in Southeast Alaska

JOHN N. COBB in drydock at Bellingham

JOHN N. COBB in drydock at Bellingham

JOHN N. COBB in drydock at Bellingham

View to the southwest in Little Port Walter

Looking back to Little Port Walter

Reflections on a still morning

Looking towards Tracy Arm from Juneau area

Stephens Passage, Tracy Arm area

Dolphin running ahead of the JOHN N. COBB

Glacier Bay area - probably McBride Glacier.

Sunset in Icy Straits area

Sunset in Hoonah Sound area

Devils Paw in Frederick Sound area

Marine mammal watching - pole is used to steady binoculars.

Lynn Canal, Haines area of southeast Alaska

Sun below the horizon in Haines area

Misty morning in Southeast Alaska labyrinth.

Possibly Auke Bay area

In Tracy Arm

Aurora borealis seen while departing Juneau.