S-2D aircraft in flight from Naval Air Station in Point Mugu,California. United States Navy Grumman S-2D Tracker anti submarine warfare aircraft in flight drops flare towards water. Sparks fly off the flare. Parachute extends and flare drops into the water. USS Coontz (DDG-9) docked in the Pacific Ocean.
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 Then tube is withdrawn and sample is pushed out onto paper.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.