Alvin Science Verification Cruise
HOV Alvin March 2014
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Getting Alvin Ready to Dive

Posted by Lonny Lippsett and Chris Linder 
· Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 

Narrated by Jefferson Grau, Alvin pilot-in-training. (Produced by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Lighting Up the Seafloor

Posted by Lonny Lippsett and Chris Linder 
· Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 


Video courtesy of Peter Girguis, chief scientist, Harvard University; Funded by NSF, ONR, and NOAA; ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Production and editing by Chris Linder, WHOI)

You’ve got action: deep-sea creatures doing their things at the bottom of the ocean. You’ve got cameras: new high-definition ones on the submersible Alvin. And you’ve got new LED lights. But to achieve the best imagery, every photographer knows that you can have the best cameras, and deftly zoom and adjust apertures, but those don’t mean a thing, if the light ain’t right. Read More →

First Look at Alvin’s Cameras and Lighting

Posted by Chris Linder 
· Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 
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WHOI marine geochemist Susan Humphris narrates scenes from Dive 4679, the first science mission after Alvin‘s recent comprehensive overhaul, highlighting the sub’s new imaging systems. HD cameras (including two pan-and-tilt units) and high-intensity LED lights promise to make stills and videos captured by scientists of the deep sea even more useful and spectacular. (Video courtesy of Peter Girguis, chief scientist, Harvard University; Funded by NSF; ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; edited by Chris Linder, WHOI)

First Dive

Posted by Chris Linder 
· Sunday, March 16th, 2014 
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On March 15, 2014, the submersible Alvin conducted its first science mission since a major upgrade began in 2011. In the personnel sphere were WHOI scientist and leader of the upgrade project Susan Humphris, who commented on the sub’s performance, and Nathan Brown, a pilot-in-training, who received the traditional dousing with ice-cold water for first-time Alvin divers. (Video by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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From March 14 to 26, Peter Girguis, chair of DESSC (DEep Submergence Science Committee), will lead a group of scientists, including many veteran Alvin divers, from a host of research institutions to “road-test” the new vehicle on an expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. More »

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