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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

Workshop, Bikini, Marshall Islands

During an inspection prior to the departure from Guam on Leg 61 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, a crack was discovered on the main propeller shaft of the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship). The shaft was grounded out and was replaced during the ships next scheduled maintenance dry dock session. 1978

Officer's Club, Bikini, Marshall Islands

Bathymetric contour chart of the sea floor between the Hawaiian and Marshall Islands during the MidPac Expedition (1950), also showing the track of the M/V Horizon, and U.S.S. EPCE(R)857, and U.S.S. Tuscaroria. November 1950