Aerial views of oceanic survey vessel underway in ocean. Level view, from another boat, of survey vessel, as it detonates two underwater explosions, raising columns of water.. Ship has a royal crown insignia on bow and flies Panamanian flag.
Crew members, on deck of oceanic survey vessel, employ winches,hawsers, and steel rods, to extract ocean core samples from coring tubes. They place protective paper under end of tube to protect the core sample as it emerges from the tube. Technician, standing on deck of ship, sets off underwater explosion which raises column of water into the air. View of mud sample from end of coring tube.Crew lifts tube and places protective paper beneath it. Then tube is withdrawn and sample is pushed out onto paper. Crewmen get another section of tube to repeat the process.
Instrument panel on board oceanic survey vessel. Technician makes adjustments to seismic data recording equipment. Paper is fastened with tape around a rotating drum and pens record the seismic data on the paper.
View from deck of oceanic survey vessel underway in heavy sea, in the Pacific ocean. Seawater runs through spaces between core sample tubes fastened to gunwale of the ship. Water runs across the entire deck, under lifeboat stanchion.
Laboratory aboard oceanic survey vessel in Pacific Ocean. Technician scrapes small amount of mud from a core sample, and examines it under a microscope.
Crewmen aboard oceanic survey vessel, in Pacific Ocean,use sextant to plot sun lines, for navigation purposes.