NDSF News & Multimedia
What’s up with NDSF Now (#NDSF_WHOI, #HOVAlvin, #ROVJason, #AUVSentry)
Was in a meeting about attaching a #SUPRsampler to #ROVJason for an upcoming expedition, and nobody else seemed amused when folks started saying things like "Check out the SUPR models" or "I'm adding images of the SUPR models to the drive". Am I just too immature? #supermodels
It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's a cirrate octopus that was spotted swimming past the viewport of the human-occupied deep-sea submersible #HOVAlvin in 1976. #WeirdWednesday
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#HOVAlvin in the spotlight!
Alvin was the first U.S. human-operated submersible, developed by researchers at #WHOI. 57 years later, it’s changing the way scientists study and understand the ocean. Check out this feature on Alvin’s amazing history. https://t.co/WNyjnoYIHx
#EveryRockHasaStory but sometimes the story is in the collecting. Let @BostonCollege’s @HeatherOlins tell you how she grabbed her favorite rock with #HOVAlvin—and what a #biologist is doing talking about #geology. @NSF #NSFfunded https://t.co/AMQOjPQCGv
During the #ColdWar, a #B52 bomber collided with a tanker over #Spain, dropping an unexploded hydrogen bomb to the bottom of the ocean. Attempts to carefully probe the seafloor turned up with nothing. Enter a 2-year-old #Submarine #HOVAlvin #NDSF #ONR https://t.co/juDBIpoizG
The National Deep Submergence Facility is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
