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Mooring deployment, Monterey Canyon

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
People stand on the stern of a ship guiding a piece of equipment that is attached to a crane.
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Scientists deploy a mooring holding current meters and other instruments on October 6, 2015.

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