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Lending a Hand

September 17, 2018

Crew of NOAA Ship Fairweather retrieve one a NOAA research buoy that had gone adrift.

Photo: NOAA

During any cruise with NOAA, things that come up that were not planned, and staff and schedules are adjusted accordingly. On this leg of the trip during our transit back to Kodiak Island, we stopped by Nome, Alaska, to pick up a scientist from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Lab PMEL office. One of their research buoys separated from its mooring and went adrift in the Bering Sea (it drifted over 100 miles before we were able to catch up to it. The Fairweather was dispatched to collect and store the buoy aboard, after which it will eventually be returned to PMEL’s lab in Seattle Washington.

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