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Divers prepare to launch a skiff, Falcon Island, Tonga

Underwater reef near Alexa Bank, Samoa

Keppel Islands off Australia

R/V Horizon in a Tahitian harbor

Roger Revelle touches coral taken from Alexa Bank

Core oceanographic instrument barrel shown with lead damaged due to salt water corrosion, retrieved from Tonga Trench

Divers observe life on the ocean floor near Vava'u Island, Tonga

Necker Island (Mokumanamana), Hawaiian Islands, as seen from R/V Horizon

Necker Island (Mokumanamana), Hawaiian Islands

Tofua Island, Tonga, as seen from R/V Spencer F. Baird

Divers, including Walter Munk (securing belt) and Willard Bascom (to right of Munk), work from a motor launch at Alexa Bank, Samoa

Underwater field work off the island of Vava'u, Tonga