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Photo Mosaics of the Seafloor
Thursday, August 18, 2011
To optimize the ROV for a down-looking photo survey, the ROPOS crew spent about 10 hours overnight reconfiguring cameras, lights, and ca...
Day 51: Seabed Cable Lay C ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011
As of midnight, last night, all OOI cable has been laid on the seabed. ...
Impressions from Dean Grau ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
It’s a balmy evening on the R/V Thompson as the full moon rises over a glassy Pacific. Several people join me on the back deck to ...
Zooplankton Viruses
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Kendra Daly, an OOI-RSN Senior project Scientist, is onboard conducting plankton net tows to obtain samples for her ongoing study... ...
Engineering tests and bubb ...
Monday, August 15, 2011
Today was a full day beginning an early morning ROPOS dive for the second round of engineering tests of L3-MariPro’s OOI primary node, an E ...
First ROV dive at Southern ...
Sunday, August 14, 2011
We arrived on station at Southern Hydrate Ridge at 1400h today and began an EM302 multibeam survey across Northern and Southern Hydrate Ridge. ...
Seismometer recovery and f ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Most of today was spent in transit from the primary node test site to a site off Gray’s Harbor, WA to recover a NSF Cascadia Array Initiati ...
BIA and SIA testing off Sm ...
Friday, August 12, 2011
After leaving the Esquimalt Graving Dock in Victoria with ROPOS aboard at midnight, we transited to an area just off of Smith Island, WA to condu ...
Dynamic Positioning
Friday, August 12, 2011
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson and TE SubCom Dependable----the two ships now working at sea on behalf of the OOI regional cable ...
Loading ROPOS in Victoria
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The R/V Thompson left the University of Washington dock early this morning for Victoria, Canada to load the ROV ROPOS and its crew membe ...
Testing the OOI Primary No ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Deployment and recovery tests of an OOI primary node are among the major activities scheduled during Leg 1 of the VISIONS '11 cruise. ...
Update on Cable Installati ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
We are making good progress, and the weather has been beautiful today. ...
Two Ships at Sea
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
There will soon be two ships at sea conducting work related to the regional cabled network component of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. ...
Loading the Ship
Monday, August 08, 2011
The VISIONS '11 science crew is working hard to be ready to load the ship when it arrives at the UW dock on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 9. ...
Completion of Segment 1 Bu ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
We have successfully completed burial on Segment 1! ...
Leaps and Bounds at the Sh ...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Anticipation intensifies, even as the recent flurry of activity at the Pacific City shore station has begun to subside. ...
Segment 5 Installation Com ...
Sunday, July 24, 2011
We spent the morning laying the last portion of the segment 5 cable, followed by 2kms of ground rope and finally the anchor. ...
Laying Segment 5
Saturday, July 23, 2011
The plow and ROV have given us a bit of extra work these past two to three days. ...
Bustling Shore Station
Friday, July 22, 2011
Things are still bustling at the OOI shore station in Pacific City. ...
At-Sea Installation Phases ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Installation of the OOI cabled at-sea network will take place in phases. ...
Installing the Land Cable
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Chris Hoyt, University of Washington OOI Field Operations Manager reports on the land cable installation activities at the OOI Shore Station ...
TE SubCom Dependable Propu ...
Monday, July 18, 2011
One of the fascinating features of this ship is its unconventional propulsion system. This system is comprised of two stern thrusters that rotate ...
Divers at Work
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Divers are working nearshore with a jet pump to bury the shore-end of the northern segment ...
The Day After
Saturday, July 16, 2011
It's the day after the second OOI cable landing and the work site behind the dune at the beach manhole in Pacific City looks like nothing eve ...
