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Second OOI Cable Landed
Friday, July 15, 2011
The second OOI cable was landed today at Pacific City at 9:13 am PST. The cable landed today is for the northern segment that will run 310 miles ...
Second Cable Landing Resch ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The landing of the second OOI cable at Pacific City, Oregon, has been rescheduled. Operations are expected to start early on Friday, July 15 ...
OOI Open House in Pacific ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
From noon to 3 pm on Wednesday, July 13, the OOI hosted an Open House at the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City, Oregon. ...
Preparing for the Cable La ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Things are shaping up on board in preparation for the cable landings in Pacific City, now scheduled for July 12 and July 14. ...
Seaplow 101
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Today's photos focus on Plow 101 - The plow is 14.5 tons and capable of operating in water depths up to 1500m and 1.5m burial. ...
Marine Mammal Observations ...
Saturday, July 09, 2011
We find ourselves on board the TE SubCom Dependable as part of a National Marine Fisheries Service condition... ...
Communicating with a Fishi ...
Thursday, July 07, 2011
We still have Force 5/6 conditions with white caps, but the vessel hardly rocks or rolls. ...
Cable Deployment Update
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
235 Km of the OOI cable have been deployed; 625 km remains to be deployed. The TE SubCom Dependable is currently sailing thro ...
Off Pacific City, Oregon
Sunday, July 03, 2011
We finished our transit this morning around 0800h and started gearing up for the prelay grapnel run just off Haystack ...
Finished with First Segmen ...
Friday, July 01, 2011
By noon we are done with the installation of our first segment!! The water depth is around 2,650m. ...
Deploying Repeaters
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Still laying Segment 6 towards the west. The routine (for some) is interrupted by the passage of 2 repeaters through the system. These enormous a ...
Start of First Cable Segme ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
After 11 hours of transit, we are now at the location of the RSN Midplate node, at the start of our first cable segment (Segmen ...
Leaving Astoria
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
1800h: We are leaving Astoria, right on time. The weather is great - well, of course it is grey and sort of raining but this is Oregon, right? Th ...
Meeting the Cable Ship in ...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Cecile Durand, the OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager at the University of Washington, reports from Astoria, Oregon: ...
Cable Laying Vessel Underw ...
Friday, June 03, 2011
A commercial cable-laying ship, the TE SubCom C.S. Dependable, set sail on June 3 from Newington, New Hampshire, loaded with the OOI cable ...
Photos of OOI Cable Loadin ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Cable loading operations for the 900 kilometers (~560 miles) of OOI backbone cable took place in late May and early June 2011 from the TE Sub Com ...
Northern conduit installed ...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Over the weekend, the L3-MariPro crew in Pacific City completed the installation of the Northern Conduit 12" pipe. ...
Northern Conduit drilling ...
Friday, March 25, 2011
The L3-MariPro drill team completed drilling the 5,000 ft Northern Conduit yesterday (March 24th)! The next step will be to push the permanent co ...
Bubble test for the Southe ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The conditions have not been favorable (bad weather) for divers, the crew decided to climb aboard a Dory boat yesterday and launched off the beach ...
Northern Conduit drilling ...
Monday, March 21, 2011
As of last Saturday (3/19), 630 ft of temporary 12" casing has been installed in the northern conduit as part of the pilot hole. This casing ...
Drilling of the Northern C ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
After successfully completing the southern conduit on March 14th, the drill rig was repositioned to work on the northern conduit the following da ...
Southern Conduit Completed ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
On Friday, March 11, the drilling rig broke through the seafloor, ahead of schedule, at the end of the 5,000-foot southern conduit. ...
