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Testing the GLORIA launching system in San Juan harbor, Puerto Rico. The GLORIA "fish" is the torpedo-like object held in the gantry cradle that rotates and slides out across the ship's stem to allow a safe launching. The fish, towed 300 meters behind the ship, carries the devices that send sound pulses out to the side of the ship's track and receive the returning echoes, thus allowing an image of a broad swath of seafloor to be created as the ship steams along (Photo Credit: Dann Blackwood, Woods Hole Field Center) |
