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Ears of the Deep, Part IV: Recovering and Deploying Moorings

By Kevin Fall · September 24, 2008 ·

ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA– Recovering a mooring of any significant size essentially amounts to getting it to the surface and picking it up with a ship using a crane... {Read More »}

Ears of the Deep, Part III: Placing a Mooring

By Kevin Fall · September 17, 2008 ·

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ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA– Kate's moorings, like most others, are constructed to be placed on the sea floor at a particular location and depth... {Read More »}

Listening for Bowhead Whales

By Phil McGillivary · August 18, 2008 ·

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ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA-- Now that we are aboard the HEALY and settled in, while we slept a survey was done running roughly offshore of Barrow. The principal work along this leg was mapping of the seafloor bathymetry with the ship’s multibeam acoustic system... {Read More »}

Welcome Aboard

By Kevin Fall · August 13, 2008 ·

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ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA-- It had been over three years since I last stepped off Healy, and there it was-- about a mile offshore, visible from the highway on the way to the airport... {Read More »}