Frontispiece 1. Leg 184 Shipboard Scientific Party. First row, left to right: Eve Arnold, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Warren Prell, Pinxian Wang, Peter Solheid, Qingmou Li. Second row: Min-Pen Chen, Zhimin Jian, Peter Clift, Christophe Colin, Jian Lin, Alain Trentesaux. Third row: Steve Clemens, Matt Higginson, Luejiang Wang, Anchun Li, Conrado Miranda, Federica Tamburini. Fourth row: Christian Bühring, Kate McIntyre, Peter Blum, Xin Su, John Farrell, Steve Nathan. Fifth row: Carlo Laj, Jih-Ping Shyu, Christine Lauer-Leredde, Joel Leventhal.

Frontispiece 2. One of two large mahi-mahi recovered at the end of a monofilament fishing line wrapped around the drill string at Site 1146 (see "Operations" in the "Site 1146" chapter).