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NOAA Ship Bigelow - Summer of 2021

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R/V Rachel Carson, June 2019

MV Alucia, March 2019

R/V Revelle and R/V Ride, Aug-Sep 2018

NOAA Ship Bigelow, April 2018

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Niskin bottles

Who goes there?

Mesobot deployment

First sea trials of a revolutionary new undersea robot

Identifying the catch

Trawling the Depths

Lancetfish

Up Close with a Lancetfish

Paper nautilus

The Expedition Begins

Deep-See deployment

Once More Into the Twilight Zone

Mesobot using red light in a test tank

Mesobot Dives into the Twilight Zone for the First Time

Heidi Sosik and Paul Caiger in a manned submersible.

Entering the Ocean Twilight Zone with Heidi Sosik

Siphonophore observed during the midwater portion of a dive by the NOAA Office of Exploration and Research off the coast of Puerto Rico in 2017. (Image courtesy of NOAA OER)

New Cooperative Institute to Boost Twilight Zone Exploration

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EXPORTS 2018 and the Ocean Twilight Zone

Corwith Cramer

SEA Collaborating with WHOI to Study the Ocean’s Twilight Zone!

Heidi Sosik enters the ocean in manned submersible

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