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Loading buoy equipment and personnel on the M/V Bluefin while at the port of San Diego, California, prior to a 2022 research cruise through the Pacific Ocean that deployed a prototype of the new TAO buoy for testing. NOAA photo.
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Loading buoy equipment and personnel on the M/V Bluefin while at the port of San Diego, California, prior to a 2022 research cruise through the Pacific Ocean that deployed a prototype of the new TAO buoy for testing. NOAA photo.