- All
- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Endurance 23
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- Irminger 12
- Irminger 9
- Pioneer 17
- Pioneer 18
- Pioneer 19
- Pioneer 21
- Pioneer MAB At-Sea Tests
- Pioneer MAB Initial Deployment
- Pioneer MAB Test Deployment
- RCA VISIONS 22
- RCA VISIONS 23
- RCA VISIONS 24
- RCA VISIONS 25
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
- Station Papa 9
Sea Spider
A pycnogonid (sea spider, a kind of arthropod) recovered along with other macrofauna samples from the ASHES hydrothermal vent field on Axial Seamount, while we…
Curious Stowaway!
The RCA team had a stowaway on Leg 3 of the OOI RCA O&M cruise! This bold adventurer even joined them in the main lab…
ROPOS delivery
ROPOS launching with one of four experimental sonar tripods to be plugged into the OOI Regional Cabled Array. They were developed by UW researchers to…
Sunrise prep
UW-APL engineer Paul Aguilar up at sunrise to prep the Axial Base Horizontal Electrometer Pressure-Inverted Echosounder (HPIES), a novel OOI instrument measuring horizontal electrical field,…
Water column sampling
ROPOS recently ran a series of dives to swap out the OOI deep profiler vehicles after a year in the water. A specialized ROV frame…
Homes for marine life
The OOI Oregon Offshore deep profiler mooring, which hosts a vehicle that moves up and down the cable taking measurements, has a large float at…
Camera capturing gas hydrate mound
An OOI PI-deployed camera captured the ROPOS ROV peeking over a gas hydrate mound. The striped pole was originally deployed in a cavern and is…
Dumbo and done
The RCA 8 Team saw a Dumbo octopus at Southern Hydrate Ridge. They also have successfully deployed 100% of the equipment planned for Leg 2…
And a curious catshark
A curious Brown catshark has shown up repeatedly while the RCA team has been working at Southern Hydrate Ridge on the OOI RCA O&M cruise!…
Crusty Camera
After a year deployed in 80 meters (~260 ft) of water (and being hit by a log!) our Oregon Shelf camera has a little bit…
Allowing us to see underwater
The underwater state-of-the-art robotic vehicle ROPOS allows us to see what is happening at a highly active methane seep site -Southern Hydrate Ridge – hosting…
A scarred octopus
Deep-sea octopuses (Graneledone boreopacifica) sometimes lurk among the basalt cliffs formed by underwater eruptions at the summit of Axial Seamount (off the coast of Oregon)…
Hydrothermal vents- active and dormant
Two hydrothermal vents at Axial Seamount visited by the ROV ROPOS during the OOI Cabled Array O&M cruise show the difference between an active “black…
Work in the lab
Leg 1 Co-Chief Scientist (and former Grays Harbor College Prof) Julie Nelson helps VISIONS’22 students from UW run chemical analyses on the verification water samples…
Biofouling challenge
Top view of the OOI Oregon Offshore Shallow Profiler Mooring shows the difference between a new set of instruments (top), 8 years spent at 200m…
Flytrap anemones and glass sponges
During the first dive of the OOI RCA O&M cruise, the ROV visited an underwater microphone (hydrophone) tripod on the seafloor at the OOI Slope…
ROPOS ready
The Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility (CSSF) Remotely Operated Vehicle ROPOS was launched August 9 on the first dive (R2201) of the OOI RCA Operation and…
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….
Mobilization 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…
