Whoops!!! Hung up at high tide with a 30-foot tide. Off NOAA Ship DAVIDSON

Misery loves company. Off NOAA Ship DAVIDSON.

Lt. Dale Ross, bowhook on PE-1. Launch off PEIRCE.

Too much power - too little sense.

Waterskiing champion - Launch used for shoal hydrography in Barataria Bay. Plotting table on bow of boat.

Launch HELIANTHUS.

Launch WILDCAT. 550' cliff in Palisade Lagoon--20 fathom depth.

Landing on Necker Island. Station for World Longitude Network.

Landing on Necker Island. Station for World Longitude Network.

Landing over coral reef.

Surf-landing on boulder beach.

36' hydro launch with 30' shoran antenna.

Lowering launch off PIONEER.

Launch RITTER on combined operations. Project from Brunswick, GA, to Jacksonville, FL.

Landing on Amlia Island. Boat off PIONEER.

Launch PRATT. PRATT was serving as Radio Acoustic Ranging station. Working in Gulf of Mexico with HYDROGRAPHER.

Survey launch on Sacramento River Delta.

Landing Shoran gear at Nushagak Bay. Boat off PATHFINDER.

Survey party - Glacier Bay.

Might as well go to work with the plane table. Aground on Sacramento River delta.

EXPLORER launch and skiff returning to ship.

Launch ELSIE with house flag. In service 1919 - 1944.

Skiff from PIONEER in the Aleutians with an easy landing. Landing party on Sequam Island.

Launch lowering on the PIONEER.

EXPLORER launch 69.

Arctic Field Party boats on shore before the ice breaks up. Launches at Nevat Camp. Combined operations party of Hubert Paton.

Arctic Field Party launch with Shoran antenna. Combined operations party of Robert Earle.

Arctic Field Party launches on shore. Combined operations party of Robert Earle.

Going to Badoc Island on a bamboo raft.

Landing at Station MIR2.

Nel, Applequist, and Francis Popper unloading hay for horses.

Landing equipment from a LCVP on the Arctic Coast. Equipment for Arctic field party. C&GS was surveying for DEW Line sites and doing hydrography in Beaufort Sea.

Preparing to land at Station Baldy in Quail Bay. Party off of PATHFINDER.

Landing on an exposed coast. Party off of SURVEYOR.

Plane table party packing up and going back to ship. Party off of SURVEYOR.

Surf landing west of Icy Point. Party off of SURVEYOR.

Landing weasel with native umiak. Party off of PATHFINDER.

Getting off of Pelican Cay. Party off of WHITING.

Launch a skiff at low tide. Party off of LESTER JONES.

ELSIE III aground on Elsie Shoal.

The ELSIE III motor sailer on a good day.

Recovering the ELSIE III motor sailer after it was swamped during a squall.

Towing the ELSIE III motor sailer ashore.

A sick engine being taken out of NOAA Launch 1257 for a trip to the shop.

Outboard engine problems - some things never change. Party off the LYDONIA.

NOAA's ark at half tide - this boat hung up while surveying at high tide. Boat was recovered to survey another day.

A charter boat used for current surveys in Boston Harbor. Current survey party of Ralph W. Woodworth.

Loading a weasel on a umiak. Party off of PATHFINDER.

Checking aids to navigation from Boston Whaler. Party off of PEIRCE during chart evaluation surveys.

Zodiac rubber boat off of DISCOVERER. Used to check oceanographic buoys on DOMES studies.