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Two of NOAA's longest-serving ships saluted for 50 years of service and survey to the nation.
NOAA ships Rainier (left) and Fairweather (right) underway in Alaska.
Crew members aboard NOAA Ship Fairweather prepare to recover a skiff.
Chief Boatswain Leslie Allen (right) and a shipmate at work aboard NOAA Ship Fairweather.
Chief Boatswain Leslie Allen (right) and a fellow crew member aboard NOAA Ship Fairweather, a hydrographic survey vessel.
NOAA wage mariners like Chief Boatswain Leslie Allen are essential to ensuring the mission gets done safely and effectively.
Students perform a giant stride from the NOAA Diving Center (NDC) pier as NDC instructor Katie Mahaffey watches. Behind them is the NOAA Ship Fairweather.
A sonar view of a sunken tugboat in Alaska that was surveyed by NOAA Ship Fairweather on Sept. 12, 2015.
NOAA Ship Fairweather surveyed a 96-ft. World War II-era tugboat that sank in Alaska on Sept. 12.
Five NOAA ships are studying marine ecosystems in the Northern Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and Gulf of Alaska.
