Putting it all together
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Credit: Ed Dever, Oregon State University
From left to right Stuart Pearce, Steve Lambert, and Kristin Politano connect the electrical-mechanical (EM) chain at the base of the Washington shelf buoy. Before deployment, the mooring is connected from top to bottom, and instruments are turned on and tested.