Deploying a DIFAR - directional frequency and ranging device. Otherwise known as sonobuoy for monitoring marine mammal vocalizations. Parachute acts as drogue slowing drift of buoy.
Image ID: fish1428, NOAA's Fisheries Collection Category: Fisheries/ • High Resolution Photo Available
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