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R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.

R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.
R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.
R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.
R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.
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R/V Oceanus and R/V Asterias, November image in 2012 calendar.
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11/23/2011
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The research vessel Oceanus was greeted by its little sibling, Asterias, near Woods Hole. After its arrival in Woods Hole in November 1975, Oceanus proved to be a workhorse, with some people referring to it as "the little ship that could." Over 35 years, Oceanus has conducted nearly 500 missions, spanning all fields of oceanography and covering hundreds of thousands of miles from Georges Bank to the Red Sea and south to the Sargasso Sea and the Angola Basin.
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Research Vessel Oceanus
Oceanus arrived from Wisconsin via the St. Lawrence Seaway in November 1975. Within a year it began topographic surveys, mooring recoveries, and deep benthic trawling cruises in the Atlantic. The 177-foot vessel became well-known in that ocean; subsequent decades found it serving a variety of biological, chemical, geological, physical, and engineering expeditions in the Atlantic. In 2010, 35 years after its arrival at WHOI and a year before retirement, Oceanus operated in the western Atlantic between Barbados and the continental shelf off New England, and also had an oil spill-related cruise to the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives
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