Making final checks on the ABE autonomous vehicle before its first dive at Brothers submarine volcano.

Andy Billings, an engineering assistant at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, makes final checks on ABE (the autonomous benthic explorer) leading up to its first dive at Brothers Volcano this evening. Image courtesy of New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2007 Exploration, NOAA Vents Program, the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences and NOAA-OE.

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