Posts Tagged ‘Endurance Array’
Glider Recovery Aboard the R/V Sally Ride
The Coastal Endurance Array Spring 2025 Turn Cruise (SR2511) is officially underway! The team successfully mobilized and departed from Newport, Oregon, marking the start of several weeks of at-sea operations. Shortly after departure, the crew completed the recovery of glider 1135, one of the autonomous vehicles collecting ocean data across the array. With the glider…
Read MoreUNOLS Volunteers Pitch In
The Endurance 20 team includes two UNOLS Cruise Volunteers on each leg. These volunteers are graduate students looking for opportunities to go to sea. On this leg, Marlena Penn and Cassia Cai joined the Endurance 20 team aboard the R/V Sikuliaq.
Read MoreWork and Weather Continue
On October 2, the Endurance 19 Team successfully deployed the Oregon inshore surface mooring (CE01ISSM). The waves were high, the weather gray, and the air cold, but the Team carried on to accomplish its objectives in the remaining days of the expedition.
Read MoreHumor Needed
A sense of humor is often required when weather and sea conditions are less than ideal yet the job needs to get done. Here, Technician Raelynn Heinitz and Deck Lead Alex Wick demonstrate their good humor as caught by the digital still camera of the bottom lander, while they were testing acoustic releases on deck…
Read MoreSnow, Snow, Snow
And it snowed! Preparations were underway to move OOI’s ocean observing equipment to the dock in Newport to load them onto the @rvsikuliaq when snow appeared. The Endurance Team is set to leave for the 18th turn of the Endurance Array in early March.
Read MoreWhy It Matters
By Darlene Trew Crist As we steam towards the Oregon coast, I thought it might be helpful to share my perspective of all of the hard work that has occurred over the past eight days at sea and why it matters. Twelve adults of various ages and genders, who comprise the Endurance 17 Team, worked…
Read MoreIt’s a Wrap
This morning the Endurance Team recovered the anchor for the Washington Offshore Profiler Mooring from 533 meters below the surface. It was the last piece of equipment to be recovered or deployed during leg 1 of the Endurance 17 expedition. The R/V Thomas G. Thompson is now steaming into the Oregon shore to outrun a…
Read MoreMore Unexpected Visitors
This morning as work on the back deck was winding up with the last anchor secured, the Endurance 17 team was greeted by a huge pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins. The dolphins joyfully swam along the starboard side of the ship, jumping over the ship’s wake, and winning the race. It was a grand site. …
Read MoreA Three Operation Day
Half of the Endurance 17 team was on deck at 6 am to begin operations early for there was a lot to accomplish. Before breakfast, the team had brought the Washington Coastal Surface Profiler Mooring onboard and had secured it to the deck. After breakfast, the rest of the contingent joined in for a full…
Read MoreLife at Sea
The best way to describe life at sea is it functions as a routine. Wake up. Eat breakfast. Deploy or recover ocean observing equipment. Break for lunch. Deploy or recover ocean observing equipment. Break for dinner. Finish deploying and recovering ocean observing equipment, if needed. Most deck operations are completed before dark, so everyone figures…
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