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"The ocean... offered us an incessant and infinite display of its most marvelous treasures"
—Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2003 Field Season Highlights Multimedia Gallery Home

We hope the following photos will give you a feel for the 2003 mission, including pictures of the specimen collected, the ship and sub, scientific sampling techniques, lab work, and what life is like on the ship. Scientists do more than just go down in the submersible. They collect samples using several types of nets and enjoy a relaxing moment or two when they can.

[Specimen] [The Ship and Sub] [Going on a Dive] [Science at Sea] [Life at Sea]


Specimen Back to Top
sargassum fish
Camouflaged Sargassum fish
photo: Liz Baird
 round glass sponge
Glass sponge
photo: Art Howard
 lionfish
Lionfish
photo: Art Howard
squat lobster
Squat lobster
photo: Liz Baird
 close-up of sea urchin
Close-up of a sea urchin
photo: Art Howard
 sea urchin mouth
Close-up of a sea urchin's mouth
photo: Liz Baird
Frank with dolphin fish
Frank with his freshly caught dolphin fish
photo: Liz Baird
close-up of dolphin fish skin
Close-up of dolphin fish skin
photo: Liz Baird
cancer crab
Cancer crab
photo: Liz Baird
hermit crab
Hermit crab
photo: Art Howard
 flounder
Flounder
photo: Liz Baird
 Lophelia
Lophelia coral
photo: Art Howard
close-up of octopus
Close-up of an octopus
photo: Art Howard
 side view of orange fish
Side view of a big orange fish
photo: Liz Baird
 little turtle found in sargassum
Turtle found in Sargassum
photo: Art Howard
yellow and purple starfish
Top side of two starfish
photo: Art Howard

The Ship and Sub Back to Top
the bridge
The Bridge - where the captain sits
photo: Art Howard
 inside the bridge
View from inside the bridge on a sunny day
photo: Art Howard
 galley
The Galley - the ship's cafeteria and dining room
photo: Art Howard
sleeping quarters
Sleeping Quarters - curtain is drawn across bunk if crew needs to sleep during the day
photo: Art Howard
 close-up sub's bubble or front chamber
Close-up of sub's "bubble" or front compartment
photo: Art Howard
 sub's top hatch
Sub's top hatch: entrance to front chamber
Liz is waiting inside for the dive to begin
photo: Art Howard
controls inside sub's front chamber
Controls inside the sub's front compartment
photo: Art Howard
sub's stern compartment
Scientist's seat in the sub's stern compartment
photo: Art Howard
climbing into stern of sub
Climbing into the stern chamber from under the sub
photo: Liz Baird
Johnson Sea Link II Submersible
Johnson Sea Link II submersible
photo: Liz Baird

Going on a Dive Back to Top
sub goes into the water
Going in!
photo: Art Howard
 view from sub at surface at beginning of dive
View from sub at water's surface
photo: Art Howard
 sub going down
Going down
photo: Art Howard
sub on bottom in shallow area
On the bottom in a shallow area (some light filters down through the water)
photo: Art Howard
 sub on bottom in deep area
On the bottom in a deep area (only light is from sub's spotlights)
photo: Art Howard
 view from sub while ascending
View from within the sub while coming up at the end of a dive
photo: Liz Baird
sub at surface at end of dive
Sub has surfaced at the end of a dive
photo: Liz Baird
 crew member attaches lines to sub
A member of the ship's crew jumps into the water to attach lines to the sub for recovery
photo: Art Howard
 sub recovery
Sub recovery in progress
photo: Liz Baird
sub comes on board
Sub comes on board with faint rainbow in the distance
photo: Liz Baird
 Doni in immersion suit
Doni, 2003 Educator at Sea, in immersion suit that will keep her warm, buoyant, and alive if she is forced into the ocean in an emergency
photo: Liz Baird

Science at Sea Back to Top
Neuston net tow
Neuston net tow to sample the surface waters
photo: Art Howard
 Neuston net comes back on board
Neuston net comes back on board
photo: Art Howard
 dip netting
Dip netting
photo: Art Howard
looking at the catch
Looking at the catch
photo: Liz Baird
 sorting the catch in the wet lab
Sorting the catch in the wet lab
photo: Liz Baird
 Martha photographs a Lophelia specimen
Martha photographs a Lophelia specimen
photo: Liz Baird
Art photographs an octopus in a plastic container
Art photographs an octopus brought up by the sub
photo: Liz Baird
Liz transribes a dive tape
Liz transcribes the audio notes from a dive.
photo: Art Howard
discussion in the dry lab
Discussion in the dry lab where scientists set up their computers
photo: Art Howard
Martha fishes for specimen
Martha catches specimen near the top of the water column
photo: Liz Baird

Life at Sea Back to Top
Dinner - mmmm!
Liz is ready to eat dinner, mmmm!
photo: Art Howard
 high seas
High seas
photo: Art Howard
 photographing dolphins
What could they possibly be photographing now?
photo: Liz Baird
cups ready to be crushed
Styrofoam cups ready to go on a dive
photo: Liz Baird
 cups attached to sub before a dive
Styrofoam cups attached to the sub before the dive
photo: Liz Baird
 shrunken cups
Cups after they have been shrunken
photo: Liz Baird
reading books on the stern
Reading books on the aft deck (the ship's stern)
photo: Art Howard
 dolphins
Dolphins! (The top dolphin is releasing a stream of air bubbles from its blowhole)
photo: Art Howard

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