 A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins played in the ships wake while the ship was surveying near the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of California. |
 The San Francisco Fire Department greets the Okeanos Explorer as it returns to the port of San Francisco. |
 The mapping team has the end-of-cruise debrief with some well-earned mocha frappachinos. |
 Expedition Coordinator Mashkoor Malik, interns Elena Crete, Andrea LeBarge, ONMS scientist Lorraine Anglin demonstrate how to properly don a PFD in an abandon ship drill, with intern Sam Baldwin in the background. |
 The Okeanos crew took “International Talk Like A Pirate” day (September 19) to a whole new level by dressing, talking, swashbuckling and singing like pirates. |
 Interns from the University of New Hampshire, Elena Crete, Andrea LeBarge, and Greg Beadle are busy at work acquiring and processing multibeam data. |
 The crew invented their own ceremony to celebrate the ship’s first crossing of the International Dateline on May 24, 2010. |
 After modifying the VSAT mast, the EX departs from Guam to conduct the inaugural mission in Indonesia in 2010. |
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