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These students don’t look very busy while they are on watch in the Control Van! Clare Williams (foreground), Tim Head (middle) and Tim Haskell take a break while the ship turns around to start a new survey line. It takes about two hours, and lots of skill and patience, to turn the ship around while towing a piece of equipment on a 3500 meter-long fiber optic cable. Once back on course, these watch standers will again be busy making observations and keeping track that the data are being recorded correctly.

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