Picture #025 in A Day in the Life of a Tomography Mooring

025 Bye anchor!! The anchor has the entire mooring attached to it as it falls, of course, and so the anchor falls back towards the mooring about 750 m before it lands on the bottom. Because of the momentum it carries in this process, the source cage will briefly overshoot its intended 750-m depth by 150 m. Rare frontal photo of John Kemp.