NOAA INSTALLS NATION’S FIRST UNDERWATER GEODETIC MARKER (PHOTOS)
NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim Keeney (left) and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Jim Connaughton with the nation's first underwater geodetic marker, placed at Molasses Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on June 17, 2004. Photo: Bob Care |
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 (From left to right) NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim Keeney, National Marine Sanctuary Program Director Dan Basta, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Jim Connaughton, and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Biologist Harold "Reef Doctor" Hudson affix a buoy mount above the geodetic marker. Photo: Bob Care
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A Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary diver with the buoy marking the site of the underwater geodetic marker, placed at the site of a reef restored by NOAA and partners following the 1984 grounding of the M/V Wellwood. Photo: Bob Care |