Nature’s Gifts
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Credit: Houraa Daher, OSU.
Sometimes while at sea nature offers up lovely gifts to compensate for other less-than-ideal working conditions. During the Endurance 19 Expedition, the team and crew of the R/V Atlantis were treated to a fogbow, glorious sunrise, and a starfish who tagged along to say hello during an anchor retrieval.