The ocean is restless and sometimes violently stormy. It can toss instruments with amazing forces that can wrench them from their moorings. Seawater is corrosive. It degrades instruments and finds the thinnest breaches in electrical insulation.

How can such hazards be anticipated and planned for?

Our team leaders are able to answer such questions, having acquired the necessary experience under tutelage. Their careful consideration feeds directly into our confidence in data acquisition—and thus the confidence you can have in Woods Hole Group.