Aboard NOAA ship, challenges and adventure while mapping sea floor

The NOAA Ship Fairweather in 2015. (Photo courtesy NOAA)
Summer is the busy season for marine research in the waters of Western Alaska, and that means plenty of ship traffic through the Port of Nome.
One such ship is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration vessel Fairweather, which recently made a third stop in Nome during a mission to map the ocean floor.http://www.knom.org/wp-audio/2017/08/2017-08-30-FairweatherPKG.mp3
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