Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DISCOVERER with a number of sensors attached to bow during BOMEX, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experim

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship DISCOVERER with a number of sensors attached to bow during BOMEX, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment. The tethered balloon is carrying upper-air meteorological sensors, the boom project ing from the bow has meteorological instruments, and the line leading down has sea-temperature sensors attached.

Photo Date: 1969