Leg 1 Complete
Endurance science party spooling mooring cable off the Hawboldt deck winch. In addition to tethering the mooring buoy this cable transmits data and power between the surface buoy and the bottom instruments. Credit: Jon Fram, OSU.
The back deck of R/V Sikuliaq during final Washington leg deck operation. Credit: Jon Fram, OSU.
Because of the amount of equipment deployed and recovered on the OOI Endurance 18, the cruise is split into two legs. The first leg is off
Washington while the second is off Oregon. After completing the Washington leg, the R/V Sikuliaq is heading back to Newport where the
science party will offload leg 1 gear and load and test leg 2 gear.