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The XBT (expendable bathythermograph) is placed into the launcher, which is connected via a cable to a computer which records the data. A pin holds the XBT in place until it is time to send it overboard. Aboard the USCGC Healy icebreaker in Beaufort Sea northwest of the Mackenzie River delta.

Credit to read: Photo by Bill Schmoker (PolarTREC 2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Bill Schmoker
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