- All
- Endurance 16
- Endurance 17
- Endurance 18
- Endurance 19
- Endurance 20
- Endurance 21
- Endurance 22
- Irminger 10
- Irminger 11
- 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
- Station Papa 9
- Station Papa 10
- Station Papa 11
- Station Papa 12
A full deck
The main objectives for Leg 1 of the Pioneer-18 cruise were to complete the mooring turns (recovery of previously deployed mooring and replacement with refurbished…
Waiting for a position
WHOI technicians Chris Basque (left) and Jim Ryder (center) wait with the Armstrong Bos’n (right) to get a position message from the GPS beacon (white…
Strapped in and ready
The InShore Surface Mooring (ISSM) is staged at the fantail of the Armstrong ready for deployment. The bright yellow paint on the buoy deck and…
Monitoring the dive
The OOI Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) was used to conduct an inspection (using the ROV cameras) of equipment on the seafloor. The ROV mission team…
Rare visitor
A Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) rests on the bow of the R/V Neil Armstrong. This is a bird that is rarely found north of the…
OSSM deployment
Deployment day for the Offshore Surface Mooring (OSSM). The Multi-Function Node (MFN) sits on the fantail of the R/V Neil Armstrong awaiting final testing. The…
Pioneer 18 underway
The Pioneer-18 cruise is underway as of 8 April, with three surface moorings moved from their staging area on the WHOI campus (pictured), and moved…
Ready to go home
At the end of an expedition everyone’s eager to get home. Here the R/V Sikuliaq approaches NOAA’s pier in Newport, OR, but there’s one more…
OOI team members on trap
It’s a tradition for folks to sign the sediment traps as they are put out for six months at sea. This trap contains the names…
OSU greetings
Sediment trap team leader Jennifer Fehrenbacher (Oregon State Univ.) takes a photograph of the sediment trap signature that contains the names of her and Claudia…
Sediment trap signatures
During Endurance 16, the R/V Sikuliaq went out to the OOI Regional Cabled Array Slope Base site to turn a sediment trap as part of…
Ten moorings to be recovered
During Pioneer 18, ten moorings will be recovered. Once close to the ship, crew members grab the moorings with a hook, and direct them to…
Glider deployments
Three gliders will be deployed during Pioneer 18 and remain in the water for the next six months, collecting data in the water column between…
Remotely operated vehicle operations
Weather conditions and time constraints during the Pioneer 17 cruise precluded complete recovery of the Offshore and Upstream Offshore Profiler Moorings. If time and conditions…
Two-leg expedition
The Pioneer 18 Recovery and Deployment mission will be conducted in two legs. The back deck of the R/V Armstrong will be filled with equipment…
Crane castle
For OOI Endurance mooring operations, the team relies on the excellent lifting equipment offered by the R/V Sikuliaq. Here a recovered surface buoy (about 20…
Wet Lab view
On this cruise, most of the work occurs on deck as the team deploys and recovers oceanographic moorings. However, at each site, the team takes…
