Picture #006 in A Day in the Life of a Tomography Mooring

006 The surface buoy is raised over the ship's side by the crane and a mulititude of tag lines. The wire rope of the mooring goes through the traveling block at far right, and around the ship's stern to the buoy, with various people keeping it from hanging up on anything. A thermistor destined for 150 m depth is visible on the cable.