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SCI Kenneth Connell admires the Christmas buoy.

BGL Ryan Walker, AB Cody Higgins, and SCI Steve Kunze are launched via the small boat to repair equipment.

SCI Steve Kunze uses sound signals to communicate with a buoy and release it from the sea floor.
NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown moored in Praia Harbor, Cape Verde.

Chief SCI Reneylls Perez (AOML) and Lt.j.g Jeffrey Calderon look on while a scientific mooring is being prepped for recovery.

AB Cody Higgins instructs Ensign Logan Dodson on how to safely use the ship's equipment while recovering a scientific mooring

GVA Derrick Mitchell salutes the camera while working aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown

SCI Steve Kunze (PMEL) and Lt.j.g. Jeffrey Calderon stands by as the cable mooring the scientific buoy to the seafloor is recovered on board

Emily Osborne collects a sediment core sample from aboard NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown boring a tube into the seafloor and then bringing up a column, or core, of sediment intact within the tube. Caps can automatically seal off the ends of the core after it has pulled up a sample, protecting the sample and keeping it intact.