First mooring deployment completed
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Credit: Ed Dever, OSU
The Endurance 16 OOI science party and R/V Sikuliaq crew deploy the Washington shelf mooring. The new mooring will sit side-by-side for a few days with the mooring deployed in September to cross-validate the data.