Updates
Moorings Recovered
The weather finally settled down enough for the Endurance 19 Team to get back to sea and continue mooring recoveries and deployments. During Leg 2, the Team aboard the R/V Atlantis deployed, the Oregon Shelf Surface Mooring and Offshore Surface Mooring. These deployments made room on the ship for the recovery of the Inshore and Offshore…
Read MoreBarnacles Galore
Gooseneck barnacles just love OOI moorings. After spending six months in the Pacific, this coastal mooring profiler recovered by the Endurance 19 Team was covered in barnacles.
Read MoreBack at It
After three weather days in the port of Astoria due to high seas and winds that would not allow at-sea operations to be done safely, the R/V Atlantis and the Endurance 19 Team headed back to sea. The ship left Astoria at 1635 PDT on Wednesday September 27 to begin leg 2 of the cruise…
Read MoreLeg 1 Getting the Job Done
The Endurance Team worked hard all day and into the night to accomplish the recovery and deployment tasks for leg 1 of the Endurance 19 expedition aboard the R/V Atlantis. In spite of their best efforts, conditions drove them back to port to wait out the storm and conditions in which they could again…
Read MoreAnd They’re Off!
Gliders are an important component of the Coastal Endurance Array. They collect data from the water column in between the moorings. The first tasks of the Endurance 19 expedition were the deployment of two gliders at the Washington Offshore site–Glider 320 (Grays Harbor Deep) and Glider 382 (Grays Harbor Shallow). Glider lead Stuart Pearce, shown…
Read MoreMission Complete!
September 18 2023: The last dive of Leg 4 (J2-1562) surveyed the seafloor at Slope Base to locate and mark a cable for potential recovery in 2024. Jason was back onboard early this morning, and the Thompson headed back to port. The vessel arrived at the NOAA dock of ~1500 local time. Demobilization commenced then and is expected to…
Read MoreVariety of Dive Tasks
September 16-17, 2023: Jason is busy with a variety of tasks. At Axial Seamount, the ROV dove in the International District hydrothermal vent field to collect fluid samples from the vent to be analyzed for microbes and viruses. The Jason did a second dive collect more fluid samples at Marker 113, a diffuse flow site…
Read MoreJason, the Work Horse
September 12-15, 2023: Leg 4 has been very busy. Jason swapped out the wire crawler vehicle at the Axial Base Deep Profiler Mooring at a water depth of 2900 meters. CTD casts were completed to verify the instruments on the deep profiler vehicle and a CTD was exchanged at Axial Caldera. The Thompson then transited from Axial…
Read MoreCalm Weather, Smooth Operations
September 7-11, 2023: Leg 4 started with a promising note–good weather and calm seas. Ten new VISIONS students boarded the R/V Thomas G. Thompson to have their first experiences at sea. A large part of operations during Leg 4 are focusing on recovering and redeploying cabled Deep Profiler moorings that host an instrumented vehicle, which at…
Read MoreMission Accomplished, Homeward Bound
Homeward bound! The Irminger 10 team has completed all cruise objectives (in spite of high winds/heavy seas) and is heading home. All moorings have been deployed and recovered; gliders deployed; CTD casts for instrument cross-calibration, meteorological surveys, and ancillary CTD casts to support the OSNAP program were completed, and many marine mammal sightings were recorded.…
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