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FEATURE RETIRING THE R/V ENDEAVOR

In September 2015, the R/V Endeavor served as the base for a ? ve-day mission to explore two World War II shipwrecks off the

Rhode Island coast: the German U-853 submarine and the SS

Black Point, the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in the Atlantic.

Scientists used remotely operated vehicles to survey the wrecks, streaming dives live online and on Rhode Island PBS.

Learn more about

R/V Endeavor on the most recent episode of the Deep Dive

Podcast with

Rhonda Moniz.

For R/V Endeavor’s ? nal cruise, the ship traveled to Nova Scotia and the northeastern coast of Newfoundland, where the science team assessed the ecological impacts of oil and gas activities using CTDs, manta nets, and a multicorer.

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