Deep Sea Drilling Project marine technician William Meyer sits on the rudder post of the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) when the vessel was in dry-dock in Curacao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea. The heavy growth of barnacles can be seen throughout the bottom of the ship and whose removal was part of the dry-dock operations. 1979.

• 1979

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

• Deep Sea Drilling Project
• Glomar Challenger (Ship)

• Meyer, William

• Marine Animals
• Oceanographic research ships
• Scientific Expeditions

• image

• UC Regents

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2020-10-26