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161214-N-PO203-068 PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 14, 2016) Crew members aboard the Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessel R/V Sally Ride retrieve scientific moorings located in La Jolla canyon during a science verification cruise designed to test installed systems and ensure readiness for conducting future research missions. Operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography under a charter lease agreement with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Sally Ride has multi-beam bottom-mapping and ocean current profiling sonars, advanced meteorological sensors and satellite data transmission systems, the latest navigation and ship-positioning systems and a specially designed hull that improves sonar acoustic performance. The Navy, through ONR, has been a leader in building and providing large ships for the nation’s academic research fleet since World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)

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