Interactive Oceans

Six on the Seafloor

Friday, August 17, 2012

Another major milestone for the OOI RSN has been achieved with the successful deployment of Primary Node 3A. ...

Shore Station Activities

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Much of the action during the OOI RSN primary node installation work has been taking place at sea on the TE SubCom Dependable. ...

New Seg. 7 Installation

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Steady progress continues to be made on the installation of the northern section of the OOI cabled infrastructure to Axial Seamount. ...

Defining the SIA

Monday, August 13, 2012

The SIA is the Science Interface Assembly, which has all the active optics, communications, low-voltage power, and control circuitry in the primary nodes. ...

PN5A Successfully Deployed ...

Saturday, August 11, 2012

The OOI RSN program has achieved another major milestone! The Mid-Plate Node, Primary Node 5A, was deployed. ...

PN 5A – Jointing Operation ...

Friday, August 10, 2012

Steady progress continues to be made on the installation of Primary Node 5A. Buoy operations have been completed. ...

PN 5A Installation Continu ...

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

As we continue to work about 245 km off the coast of Oregon, we are making steady progress on the installation of OOI RSN Primary Node 5A. ...

On Site to Install PN5A

Monday, August 06, 2012

Brian Ittig, the OOI RSN Marine Operations Manager at the University of Washington, reports from the TE SubCom Dependable ...

Transit to Node 5A

Saturday, August 04, 2012

According to Paul Hagstrom, the ship left the dock in Portland, Oregon, at 1300h PDT on Friday, August 3, and was crossing the Columbia River Bar at Astoria some 8 hours later. ...

Port Call in Portland

Thursday, August 02, 2012

We arrived offshore of Astoria, Oregon, in the early morning hours today on our way back to Portland for a quick turnaround. ...

PN1D is Installed!

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

OOI Primary Node 1D has been deployed and landed on the seafloor and has been successfully tested from the shore station. ...

Burial and Inspection Comp ...

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Burial and inspection of cable segments 3 and 4 were completed on 30 July 2012. Next up is installation of OOI Primary Node 1D. ...

Humpbacks Visit

Monday, July 30, 2012

As part of the OOI team at sea for the primary node installation cruise, the job of the two Protected Species Visual Observers (PSVO ...

Cable Burial Node PN1C

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Burial continues for cable segments 3 and 4, which are jointed into OOI RSN Primary Node 1C (PN1C). Photos here show deployment of PN1C. ...

Milestone: PN1C is Install ...

Saturday, July 28, 2012

On Friday, July 27, during cable balancing 433 meters of cable were removed from Segment 3 and 369 meters from Segment 4. ...

Photos of Final Inspection ...

Friday, July 27, 2012

Photos have just arrived from the TE SubCom Dependable of the final inspection of OOI RSN Primary Node 1B (PN1B). ...

Another RSN Node is Born! ...

Thursday, July 26, 2012

On July 26th at 4 pm PDT, the third Primary Node on the RSN (PN1C) came to life as power was re-applied to the cable system and energized the Node ...

Cable Burial Continues at ...

Monday, July 23, 2012

Burial of cable Segments 2 and 3, which are connected to Primary Node 1B, is continuing. ...

Second Node Installed!

Friday, July 20, 2012

Operations for the deployment of Primary Node 1B (PN1B) started late in the evening of July 19. Just before midnight it was confirmed that the node had landed. ...