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A early suspended sediment trap being taking into the ocean by some Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, near the institutions pier. Photo includes two unidentified men and Robert Lester Wisner (man on far right). Note the early "water suits" being used which were gathered and tied at their backs. This was before neoprene wet-suits, as we know them today. Circa 1948.

A early suspended sediment trap being taking into the ocean by some Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, near the in...