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The Honolulu-based ship is deploying researchers to set up camps in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands for four months.

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette underway off Honolulu, Hawaii.

A team of marine debris removal experts working from the Honolulu-based Oscar Elton Sette conducted operations at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Derelict fishing nets are craned aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette for transport back to Honolulu.

Researchers unfurl a trawl net aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette.

NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette embarked on Sept. 6 on a scientific expedition to the west coast of Hawaii Island to study the marine ecosystem.
Meet NOAA Diver Paula Ayotte and read her enthralling account of her encounter with a school of hammerhead sharks during a recent research trip.
"As we stared into the blue, a single hammerhead swam towards us, and then leisurely circled us before swimming off." This shark was photographed by a NOAA Diver near Jarvis Island in the South Pacific Ocean.