RCA VISIONS 22
Students aboard
Leg 1 VISIONS students on the 2022 OOI RCA O&M cruise pose on the bow as the R/V Thomas G. Thompson steams out of Newport. Students work with UW researchers, engineers, and the ship’s crew to learn all aspects of marine research, ship ops, and life aboard a research vessel.
Read MoreMobilization underway
Mobilization and loading of the ROPOS ROV on the R/V Thomas G. Thompson for Leg 1 of the OOI Regional Cabled Array operations & maintenance expedition began on August 8th. View live video here.
Read MoreVISIONS’22 blog
You can keep up with daily activities during RCA VISIONS’22 by watching a live stream video and reading daily blogs written by both the science party and student participants. Be sure to bookmark this site and check back often! This 45-day expedition beginning August 5 promises to be exciting. This highly complex operation will be…
Read MoreHeaded to sea soon
The Regional Cabled Array team soon goes to sea on their 43-day cruise on the R/V Thompson using the ROV ROPOS, which will make at least 40 dives in coastal waters, at methane seeps, and on the largest underwater volcano off the Pacific coast – Axial Seamount.
Read MoreTransport underway
It promises to be a full house! The first shipment of infrastructure and equipment to support the 2022 RCA operations and maintenance expedition shipped from Seattle, WA to Newport, OR on 25 July. Trucks will leave daily from Seattle through next week in preparation for mobilization on the R/V Thompson on 5 August. …
Read MoreR/V Thomas G. Thompson
The R/V Thomas G. Thompson is operated by the University of Washington as part of the US academic research fleet, within the UNOLS framework (University National Oceanographic Laboratories System). The Thompson is 274 ft in length, 52.5 ft. beam, and at full load has a 19-foot draft. It had a complete mid-life overhaul at the end of 2017,…
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