Updates
Safety First
Shipboard safety is always a priority. Early in the cruise all Papa personnel must go through the safety briefing and drills, including how to put on the immersion suit. Here Dan Bogorff and the team try on their suits and discuss emergency scenarios with Capt. Diego and other members of RV Sikuliaq crew.
Read MoreAcoustic Tests
Here Jim Dunn of WHOI prepares acoustic releases for a test deployment. They will be lowered into the water and test actuated using an acoustic signal. The acoustic releases are integral to the Papa mooring deployments and Jim will make sure they are all functional before mooring operations begin.
Read MoreMoorings Tested and Assembled
Following the loading of the equipment on the RV Sikuliaq, the moorings are assembled and tested during the transit to the Station Papa site.
Read MoreAnd They Are Off
With beautiful Seward, Alaska as the backdrop, RV Sikuliaq departs for the Station Papa 10 mooring and glider deployment expedition.
Read MoreEssential Equipment
Most people think about the instrumentation and the electronics on the OOI moorings. But the moorings wouldn’t hold position for 12 months through stormy weather without these pieces of equipment! These are the subsurface mooring 6000 lb mace anchors needed to keep everything in place.
Read MoreMobilization Underway
Papa mobilization has begun. The first thing the team does is offload containers of equipment and build the moorings. James Kuo, Nico Llanos, and Dan Bogorff assemble the subsurface moorings, including the profiling vehicles, and begin system testing prior to loading the vessel.
Read MoreHeading to Seward
A team of 10 scientists and engineers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington are headed to Seward, Alaska to load the R/V Sikuliaq for the tenth turn of the Global Station Papa Array. This annual spring “turn” of the Array is no small undertaking. A successful turn requires months of equipment…
Read MoreAn Undergraduate’s Experience
Athena Abramhamsen is an undergraduate student at Oregon State University, who also works part-time with the OOI’s Endurance Team, helping to refurbish and rebuild moorings. The Endurance 18 expedition was her first time at sea. She speaks of her experience and what she learned in this short video.
Read MoreAnd it’s a Wrap
And it’s a wrap! Last day at sea until the fall. Time to head back to the Ocean Observatories Center (OOC) at Oregon State University (OSU). The R/V Sikuliaq docked and offloading began. The Endurance 18 team offloaded all the moorings and other gear to truck back to the OOC in Corvallis. Well done team!…
Read MoreTeamwork
The Endurance 18 Team conquered stormy conditions, recalcitrant anchors, and March winds and successfully recovered and deployed all moorings so that the Array will be operational and reporting critical ocean data for another six months. It takes a team!
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