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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

Principal electronics technician David Havens turns the wheel which adjusts vertical angle on the new satellite weather antenna, state of the art antenna for its time, installed aboard D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) during the port call at Agana, Guam, between Legs 59 and 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The big wheel at the bottom takes care of the horizontal angle. Shipboard data tables are provided for the required horizontal and vertical antenna angles. Information is received from a satellite in stationary orbit and processed by shipboard equipment to produce a weather map which enables the captain, scientists and operations personnel to get weather forecasts 18 hours in advance at any drilling and coring site. 1978

Scientist Seiya Uyeda, right, of the Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, and Co-Chief Scientist on Leg 60 of Deep Sea Drilling Project with colleague and oceanographer Timothy J.G. Francis, of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Blacknest, Brimpton, Reading, England. They are conducting thermal conductivity measurements of a core recovered north of Guam near the Mariana Trench. The equipment they are using measures the dissipation of heat in the core material. 1978

A view from the Bridge - Captain Joe Clarke, one of the D/V Glomar challenger's two skippers, looks forward from the bridge as the drilling vessel leaves the harbor at Guam to begin Leg 61 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project