Stern of the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN while tied up at NOAA's Pacific Marine Center.

Jensen aluminum launch propeller with protective skeg below

Upside down view of transducer on Jensen aluminum hydrographic launch.

Rudder of Jensen aluminum launch

Jensen aluminum hydrographic surveying launch in Lake Union.

NOAA aluminum hydrographic surveying launch 1002

View from NOAA's ship base in Miami at sunset

NOAA aluminum hydrographic surveying launch 1101 at NOAA's Pacific Marine Center

Rear Admiral Ray Moses and Captain Ted Wyzewski during test and acceptance of NOAA Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB)

Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB)

Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) testing

Stern of NOAA Ship RESEARCHER (later renamed the MALCOLM BALDRIGE)

Life ring on ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER at beginning of around the world cruise.

ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER at beginning of around the world cruise

Bridge of ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER at beginning of around the world cruise.

Plot room of ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER during around the world cruise

Ceremony marking beginning of ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.

Chain dredge on ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER carried on around the world cruise.

Deploying oceanographic gear off ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER

Pipe dredge in center bottom of photograph on ESSA Ship OCEANOGRAPHER used during around the world cruise.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Touring at the lighthouse at Lands End, England. This is the very southwest tip of England.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Launch departing OCEANOGRAPHER.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Russian cruiser Vitze Admiral Drozhd

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Ship's launch coming alongside to debark passengers. Harris B. Stewart waiting to climb ladder.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Deploying a gravity corer to penetrate the bottom and obtain a sample of material showing the sedimentary layering.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Bottom sampler secured prior to use.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Passing the rock of Gibraltar with a view from the south.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Approaching Monaco. The large building on the left is the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Approaching the harbor at Monaco.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. The harbor at Monaco.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Moored at Monaco.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Monitoing wire during over-the-side operations in tropical waters.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Over-the-side operation in progress.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Dredged material being recovered.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Bringing aboard a large sample of dredged material. Believe Harris B. Stewart with bald head waiting to see sample.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Water bottles for sampling at depth.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Middle East.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Side tour to the Valley of Kings? Nubian monuments?

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Nansen bottle going down top obtain both water sample and temperature data.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Nansen bottle being recovered to obtain water sample and read attached thermometers.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Inductive salinity and conductivity meter used in analyzing sea water samples.

USC&GS Ship OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise.

Wiredrag vessel C&GS Ship HILGARD and WAINWRIGHT (on left).

NOAA' s Atlantic Marine Center. From left to right: FERREL, DISCOVERER, MT. MITCHELL outboard, PEIRCE and WHITING, RUDE and HECK.

After deck of either HILGARD or WAINWRIGHT rigged for wiredrag operations.

After deck of either HILGARD or WAINWRIGHT rigged for wiredrag operations.

Stern of wiredrag vessel HILGARD with WAINWRIGHT tied up outboard.