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Viti Levu, waterway in Fiji, as seen from the deck of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel, R/V Spencer F. Baird, during the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). 1953

Fiji, Grand Pacific cocktail party, Slawson, Edward L. Winterer and Kinsfather. The Horizon and Argo were together for the first time during the expedition, so we had a party at the Grand Pacific hotel

Fiji-Nansori Burial of a Chief

Entering Lautoka on Horizon

Empty explosives boxes, Guam

SW Coast, Guam, Leg 4, Indopac

Coccolith Ooze - This scanning electronic microscope picture, magnified 6,000 times, show Coccoliths mixed with Calcite crystals in a sample taken on Leg Seven of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Guam to Honolulu). The sample was late Miocene in age and taken from about 656 ft. (200M) below the Pacific Ocean Floor

R/V Thomas Washington, Apra Harbor, Guam

R/V Thomas Washington Apra Harbor, Guam

Ship sinking, Operation Crossroads

Two Russian scientists, Valeriy A. Krasheninnikov, second from left, a paleontologist from the Academy of Science in Moscow, and Alezander P. Lisitzen, second from right, a geologist from the Institute of Oceanology, also in Moscow, were members of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Sixth Leg scientific team. They were welcomed aboard in Honolulu by Bruce C. Heezen, left of Columbia University, and Alfred G. Fischer, right of Princeton University. Heezen and Fischer were Co-Chief Scientists for the Honolulu to Guam leg which ended on August 5. Part of the 194-foot-tall derrick and other associated drilling and equipment is visible on the drilling floor of the Challenger. 1969

US Nuclear submarine, Guam