Since that dive series in 1985, I’ve had around 40 dives in Alvin to depths of nearly 13,000 feet — until recently close to the limit of Alvin’s capabilities.

Throughout its history, Alvin—the most active research submersible in the world and the only U.S. HOV capable of reaching ...

The design of the replacement human-occupied vehicle (HOV) for Alvin is the result of more than 10 years of discussions and input from the scientific community.

Alvin is one of only five deep-diving human occupied vehicles in the world and the only such HOV in the United States. Alvin revolutionized deep-sea exploration by providing U.S. scientists with ...

Alvin sampling a hydrothermal vent in 2021. Photo: WHOI-MISO, D. Fornari, S. A. Soule, WHOI/NSF/2022, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Alvin submersible is now capable of diving to 21,325 ...

Alvin — a human-occupied vehicle [HOV] deep diving submersible — was launched today [Nov 2] at Penno’s Wharf in St George’s as part of its sea trials. A U.S. Consulate spokesperson said ...

Video taken from inside the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin as the submersible passed over the conning tower and forward hull of USS F-1. Credit: Bruce Strickrott, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

HOV Alvin, launched off the research ship Atlantis, filmed the reef for the first time. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Galapágos Marine Reserve (GMR), established in 1998 by the ...

Alvin is not the Alvin that it was in the sixties by any stretch. And it's not the same sub it was in the eighties. When we come out of this overhaul, it's likely to be no later than about 2012.

An octopus reaches out to touch the robotic arm of Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin (with Scripps Oceanography PhD student Jen Le on board) earlier this week during the ROC HITS Costa Rica Margin ...

From February 24 to March 4, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin, and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, both ...