Archive for August 10, 2022

Bob Waters uses the Alvin manipulator arm to pick up a rock sample from the ridge. (Courtesy of Anna Michel, WHOI and Adam Soule, URI/NSF/HOV Alvin, 2022 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) The view out of Alvin’s port-side window, at 5300 meters depth in the south-central Mid-Cayman Trough, reveals a pockmarked tan surface, like toasted…