Forming the Coast Range—Ranger Jen’s Oreo Demo
Jennifer Natoli was a seasonal ranger at Redwood National and State Parks in California. In her version of the Oreo® cookie demonstration, the creamy filling is the layers of sediment and basalt on the ocean fl... More
A black and white photo of a group of people on a boat. Office of War ...
Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More
Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...
Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A black and white photo of a group of men on a boat. Office of War Inf...
Actual size of negative is E (approximately 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More
Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Victory food from American waters. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...
Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Failed Attempt to Recover Liberty Bell 7
(July 21, 1961) After the hatch "Liberty Bell 7" opened prematurely, gallons of seawater entered the spacecraft. A helicopter recovery team attempted to empty the water, as seen in this photo. Seconds after thi... More
STS-51-L Recovered Debris (Forward Skirt)
(April 22, 1986) On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion soon after launch. Using subma... More
Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; a view of the de...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More
Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; view of the bow ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More
Depth 10,000 feet, 400 miles southwest of the Azores; stern view of th...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC) Scene Camera Operator: Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital... More
Multiple trilobite fragments fossilized in the same rock
USNM_35236: Charles D. Walcott, renowned invertebrate paleontologists, identified trilobite specimen Solenopleura? weedi (USNM 35236) from the Upper Cambrian (~500 million years ago) Pilgrim limestone in northw... More
Divers from Underwater Construction Team 2 (UCT-2) of Port Hueneme, Ca...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Clemente Island State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3(Dv) Salcido Release Status: Release... More
A diver of Underwater Construction Team 2 uses and underwater impact w...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Clemente Island State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Salcido Release Status: Released to... More
A diver of Underwater Construction Team 2 (UCT-2) uses an underwater i...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Clemente Island State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Salcido Release Status: Released to... More
Two divers of Underwater Construction Team 2 (UCT-2) use an underwater...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Clemente Island State: California(CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Salcido Release Status: Released to... More
A sea lion swims to the ocean floor to hook up a retrieving line to pr...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Key West State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Reinhard Release Status: Released to Public Combi... More
A sea lion swims to the ocean floor to hook up a retrieving line to pr...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Key West State: Florida(FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PHC Reinhard Release Status: Released to Public Combi... More
Photographers mate Third Class (PH3) Paul Goodknight swims across the ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Key West State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH2(Dv) Andrew Mckaskle Release Status: Released to ... More
US Navy Damage Controlman 1ST Class John Frush assists a diver into hi...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Grasp (ARS 51) Scene Camera Operator: PH1 Glen J. Hurd, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
US Navy Boatswains Mate 1ST Class Mark Thomas stationed on board the U...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy Boatswains Mate 1st Class Mark Thomas stationed on board the US Navys salvage ship USS GRASP (ARS 51) (faces camera) wh... More
US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bot...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bottom." One hundred and twenty feet above him is the US Nav... More
US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bot...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bottom." One hundred and twenty feet above him is the US Nav... More
US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bot...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy Engineman 2nd Class, Diver, Anthony Bartelli "walks on the bottom." One hundred and twenty feet above him is the US Nav... More
US Navy Boatswains Mate 1ST Class, Diver, Matthew Rotan, talks to fell...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Moriches Inlet State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: JO2 Roland S. Flanders Release Status: Releas... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Gunther Wendt takes a turn at the podium...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Gunther Wendt takes a turn at the podium after viewing the recovered Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule, seen in the background. At right is Curt Newport who led the expeditio... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A close-up of the recently recovered Lib...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A close-up of the recently recovered Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule from the ocean floor shows the lettering "United States" still clearly visible on its side. Thirty-eight... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This photograph shows two mercury dimes ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This photograph shows two mercury dimes that were found inside the recently recovered Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule. Thirty-eight years ago, the capsule made a successful ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Retrieved from the ocean floor three mil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Retrieved from the ocean floor three miles deep, the Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule is revealed to photographers and the media in Port Canaveral, Fla. The capsule was foun... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Media and photographers get a close-up v...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Media and photographers get a close-up view of the Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule after its recovery from the Atlantic Ocean floor where it lay for 38 years. Launched Jul... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Media and spectators get a close-up view...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Media and spectators get a close-up view of the Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule after its recovery from the Atlantic Ocean floor where it lay for 38 years. Launched July 2... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Waiting for the arrival of the Liberty B...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Waiting for the arrival of the Liberty Bell 7 after its raising from the ocean floor. Liberty Bell 7 launched U.S. Air Force Captain Virgil "Gus" Grissom July 21, 1961 on a missio... More
US Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One (MDSU-1 ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Pacific Ocean (POC) Scene Major Command Shown: CINCPACFLT Scene Camera Operator: PHC(Sw/Dv) Andrew Mckaskle, USN Release Status: Released to P... More
USS Monitor gun turret pulled from the water during salvage operation.
Off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. (Aug. 05, 2002) The revolving gun turret from the civil war era Ironclad ship USS Monitor is lifted from the ocean floor, and placed onto the derrick barge Wotan. U.S. Navy... More
USS Monitor gun turret pulled from the water during salvage operation.
Off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. (Aug. 05, 2002) The revolving gun turret from the civil war era Ironclad ship USS Monitor is lifted from the ocean floor, and placed onto the derrick barge Wotan. U.S. Navy... More
US Navy (USN) Sailors assigned to the Deep Submergence Unit (DSU), loa...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Air Station, North Island State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Rebecca J. Moat, Usn R... More
US Navy (USN) Sailors assigned to the Deep Submergence Unit (DSU), loa...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Air Station, North Island State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Rebecca J. Moat, Usn R... More
US Navy (USN) Sailors assigned to the Deep Submergence Unit (DSU), loa...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Naval Air Station, North Island State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: PH3 Rebecca J. Moat, Usn R... More
US Navy (USN) Commander (CRD) Kent Van Horn, Commanding Officer, Deep ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Diego State: California (CA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Gregory S. Cleghorne, Usn Release Status: Re... More
Russian Sailors evacuate the AS-28 PRIZ mini-submarine after surfacing...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Bering Sea Scene Camera Operator: Etcm Charles T. Grandin, Usn Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
A starboard bow view showing the Decommissioned US Navy (USN) Intrepid...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Gulf Of Mexico Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Jackey Bratt, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
A starboard bow view showing the Decommissioned US Navy (USN) Intrepid...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Gulf Of Mexico Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Jackey Bratt, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
A starboard bow view showing the Decommissioned US Navy (USN) Intrepid...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Gulf Of Mexico Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Jackey Bratt, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
A U.S. Navy minemen guides a Kline Sonar machine, used for ocean floor...
Arabian Sea (Dec. 02, 2006) A U.S. Navy minemen guides a Kline Sonar machine, used for ocean floor surveying and detection of mine-like objects, over the side of USS Ardent (MCM 12) during a mine countermeasure... More
A U.S. Navy minemen guides a Klein 5000 Side Scan Sonar machine, used ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: USS Ardent (MCM 12) Scene Camera Operator: MC2 Justin K. Thomas, USN Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2 perform d...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (Jun. 10, 2008) U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 2 perform diving operations to raise a mine off the ocean floor during a scenario for Frontier Sentinel, an annual mar... More
Navy Diver 2nd Class Troy Crowder ooks over the edge of a dive platfor...
VERACRUZ, Mexico (Jul. 22, 2010) Navy Diver 2nd Class Troy Crowder, assigned to company 2-6, Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, looks over the edge of a dive platform to make sure the platform has a clear... More
Personnel assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command screen sedi...
THUA THIEN HUE, Vietnam (May. 21, 2011) Personnel assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) screen sediment retrieved from the ocean floor for human remains or other evidence during a recovery mis... More
Navy Diver 1st Class James Asmussen, assigned to Mobile Diving and Sal...
THUA THIEN HUE, Vietnam (Jun. 02, 2011) Navy Diver 1st Class James Asmussen, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1, screens sediment retrieved from the ocean floor for human remains or other evide... More
Chilean navy divers walk along the ocean floor during diving operation...
VALPARAISO, Chile (Jun. 29, 2011) Petty Officer 2nd Class Roprigo Fuentas, right, and 2nd Sgt. Bernardo Alcaide, navy divers assigned to the Chilean Buzo Salvatoaja, walk along the ocean floor during diving ope... More
Navy Diver 3rd Class Bryan Myers leaps from rock to rock along the oce...
VALPARAISO, Chile (Jun. 29, 2011) Navy Diver 3rd Class Bryan Myers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2, leaps from rock to rock along the ocean floor during diving operations. MDSU-2 is partici... More
The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 06, 2012) The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered inside the gun turret of the USS Monitor after it was raised from the ocean floor in 2002 are revealed dur... More
The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 06, 2012) The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered inside the gun turret of the USS Monitor after it was raised from the ocean floor in 2002 are revealed dur... More
The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 06, 2012) The facial reconstruction of two Sailors whose remains were discovered inside the gun turret of the USS Monitor after it was raised from the ocean floor in 2002 are revealed dur... More
Operators aboard Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Nav...
INDIAN OCEAN (Apr. 14, 2014) Operators aboard Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield move the U.S. Navy's Bluefin 21 Artemis autonomous underwater vehicle into position for deployment. Using side scan sonar, the B... More
Operators aboard the Australian navy vessel ADF Ocean Shield move U.S....
INDIAN OCEAN (Apr. 14, 2014) Operators aboard the Australian navy vessel ADF Ocean Shield move U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 into position for deployment. Using side scan sonar, Bluefin will descend to a depth of betw... More
Operators aboard the Australian navy vessel ADF Ocean Shield move U.S....
INDIAN OCEAN (Apr. 14, 2014) Operators aboard the Australian navy vessel ADF Ocean Shield move U.S. Navy's Bluefin-21 into position for deployment. Using side scan sonar, Bluefin will descend to a depth of betw... More
Aerographer's Mate 2nd Class Robert Carlson (left) and 3rd Class Rache...
GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 04, 2014) Aerographer's Mate 2nd Class Robert Carlson (left) and 3rd Class Rachel Myers, assigned to Commander, Task Group 56.1, deploy a MK 18 MOD 2 Swordfish to survey the ocean floor durin... More
Sailors deploy a MK 18 MOD 2 Swordfish to survey the ocean floor durin...
GULF OF OMAN (Nov. 04, 2014) Aerographer's Mate 2nd Class Robert Carlson, left, and Aerographer's Mate 1st Class Melvin Lankford, assigned to Commander, Task Group 56.1, deploy a MK 18 MOD 2 Swordfish to survey... More
Pelagic cormorants perched on rocky island, Kenai Fjords National Park...
Pelagic cormorants (Phalacrocora pelagicus) are often seen drying their wings while perched upon small, rocky islands between foraging expeditions to the coastal ocean floor. This is because, like all cormorant... More
Horseshoe crabs (Limulidae), Fire Island National Seashore, 2015.
Horseshoe crabs originated around 450 million years ago and are considered 'living fossils', meaning they are similar to related species only known from fossils. In recent years, they have experienced a populat... More
Horseshoe crabs (Limulidae) returning to breed, Fire Island National S...
Horseshoe crabs originated around 450 million years ago and are considered 'living fossils', meaning they are similar to related species only known from fossils. In recent years, they have experienced a populat... More
A digital painting of a city in the middle of the ocean. Apocalypse wa...
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Members of Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2, assigned to Commander...
DIEGO GARCIA (Nov. 04, 2016) Members of Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2, assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 75, observe the lifting of a pylon from the ocean floor in Diego Garcia. CTF 75 is the prim... More
Celia Ou, a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography mo...
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 15, 2016) Celia Ou, a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography monitors computer screens displaying detailed sonar imaging of the ocean floor aboard the Auxiliary General Ocea... More
Construction Electrician 2nd Class Ben Coulson, assigned to Underwater...
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Feb. 11, 2017) Construction Electrician 2nd Class Ben Coulson, assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1, searches the ocean floor during diver qualification training onboard Naval ... More
Sri Lanka navy diver walks on the ocean floor in a Mobile Diving Salv...
GUAM (Aug. 15, 2017) A Sri Lanka navy (SLN) diver walks on the ocean floor in a Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 1 KM37 surface-supplied diving helmet during a diving subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) at N... More
Sailors assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1, survey the o...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Sep. 15, 2018) Sailors assigned to Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1, survey the ocean floor with a side scan sonar system on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. Members of... More
Convergent Plate Boundary Development—Subduction (1 of 3)
Where tectonic plates converge, the one with thin oceanic crust subducts beneath the one capped by thick continental crust. A subduction zone consists of material scraped off the ocean floor near the coast (acc... More
San Andreas Fault—Pillow Basalt
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Pillow basalt, formed as lava poured out on the ocean floor, was later scraped off the top of the subducting plate and thrust onto the edge of the continent.
Emperor Hotspot Track—Ocean Floor
The topography and bathymetry (underwater topography) of the northern Pacific Ocean reflect the movement of the Pacific Plate over the Hawaiian Hotspot. Prior to 42 million years ago, the Pacific Plate was movi... More
Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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Boy scouts in a submarine; or, Searching an ocean floor,
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