The R/V Atlantis Team recovers the Alvin submersible from a deep dive on theScience Verification Expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench and Mid-Cayman Rise. Around the ship,patches of Sargassum ...

The submersible Alvin about 8,500 feet down ... is still in place while they undo the recovery line to the ship. Alvin is launched off the stern of research ship Atlantis during a recent dive ...

which led the search for the ship’s final resting place. It was captured by cameras onboard a three-person research submersible called Alvin and the then newly developed remotely operated ...