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Iselin helped Bigelow plan the Atlantis, which is still the only U.S. vessel to be designed as an oceanographic ship. The Atlantis was built in Copenhagen, and Iselin sailed her back to Woods Hole as her first skipper.
Rugged Science. A steel-hulled, 142-ft. ketch (tall mainmast forward, shorter mizzenmast aft) with berths for nine scientists and a crew of 17, the Atlantis was still a very small ship to cope for months with the North Atlantic in all its ferocious moods. She had a rather feeble...
For the next ten years Iselin sailed with the Atlantis, crisscrossing the Atlantic and doing an oceanographer's chores-trailing thermometers at varying depths, testing water for density and salinity. In 1940 he became director of Woods Hole, saw U.S. oceanography transformed into a Naval auxiliary. For some reason...
Deep & Narrow. Before the war, even such well-known currents had not been thoroughly mapped in detail. For Woods Hole oceanographers, the first order of business was a new study of the great Gulf Stream, which exports tropical water to northern Europe. With the aid of loran, the new Atlantis...
Years of patient measurements of water temperature, salinity and density have begun to pay off by providing oceanography with a substructure of theory. Doubting the conventional view that ocean currents are simply streams of water pushed around by prevailing winds, Henry Stommel of Woods Hole analyzed thousands of such observations...