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Co-Chief Scientists for Leg 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Donald Hussong (left) from the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, and Seiya Uyeda (right) from the Earthquake Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. They were on the deck of D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) for a discussion of findings for Leg 60, the research vessels almost 200-foot-tall drilling derrick can be seen in the background. 1978

Remants of the local bowling alley called the Bowling Palace, after a tsunami hit Hilo, Hawaii, on the Big Island. April 4, 1946

Microbiologist Richard Y. Morita who served on the MidPac Expedition (1950), took this photo of a view overlook stop in, Hawaii, Honolulu, during a break from the expedition. 1950

Aerial view of Kawela Bay, Oahu, Hawaii after a tsunami hit this part of the island. Arrow on the photograph is where Francis Parker Shepard a geologist from Scripps Institution of Oceanography was when the waves hit this area. April 1946

Francis Parker Shepard, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, inspecting the damage to a house and scarp formation, at Kainalu, Molokai, after a tsunami. A scarp formation is displacement of the land surface by movement along the fault of an earthquake line and mass wasting caused by water runoff. April 1946

Loading explosives into [Taiwanese research vessel] Chiu Lien, Guam

Floating drydock, Guam

Pilot boat "Nogales," Apra harbor, Guam

[Necker Island]

During the Swan Song Expedition (1961) a member of the crew took this photo of the ferryboat "California" taking members to the dock in Honolulu, Hawaii, from the R/V Argo. 1961

Yap (Palau?), Indopac Leg 4

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