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Safe and Sound

Here the test Coastal Surface Mooring is safely on deck after ~8 months operating at the proposed Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight location.  The mooring was deployed…

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Surface Mooring Recovery

It may seem calm at the surface, but there’s a lot of action below…The OOI-CGSN team used the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to inspect the…

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Sunrise at Sea

Chris Basque, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution deck lead, takes advantage of the calm seas and bright sunrise to survey the work area and plan the…

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As Seen from Below

Everything looks good! The Remotely Operated Vehicle was deployed by the OOI-CGSN team to inspect the underwater components of the Shallow Water Mooring after deployment….

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As Seen from the Air

And here’s what the successful deployment of OOI’s experimental surface mooring off Martha’s Vineyard looked like from the air.

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Test is Underway

  The OOI-CGSN team and the R/V Neil Armstrong successfully deployed the Shallow Water Mooring which will now collect engineering data so the team can…

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Armstrong on the Way

The OOI-Coastal and Global Scale Node (CGSN) team will deploy the Shallow Water Mooring south of Martha’s Vineyard enroute to the proposed Pioneer Mid-Atlantic Bight…

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Loaded and Ready to Go!

The Shallow Water Mooring has been loaded on the R/V Neil Armstrong and fully integrated.  This means the buoy, riser, multi-function node, and profiling vehicle…

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Safety First

Safety is always a key aspect of going to sea.  One of the first things we do is have a safety drill so that we…

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Preparing the Test Mooring

At-Sea Test 4 cruise will include the first deployment of new Shallow Water Mooring (SWM) components. The mooring will be deployed for a few months…

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Anchors, then Away

Two anchors were recovered — the Washington Offshore Profiling mooring anchor and the Washington Offshore surface mooring anchor — and the R/V Atltantis and the…

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Deployment and Recovery

The work continues. On Tuesday, October 4, the Endurance 19 Team aboard the R/V Atlantis deployed the Washington Shelf surface mooring, making room on the…

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Nature’s Gifts

  Sometimes while at sea nature offers up lovely gifts to compensate for other less-than-ideal working conditions.  During the Endurance 19 Expedition, the team and…

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Work 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…

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Humor 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…

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Moorings Recovered

The weather finally settled down enough for the Endurance 19 Team to get back to sea and continue mooring recoveries and deployments.  During Leg 2,…

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Barnacles Galore

Gooseneck barnacles just love OOI moorings.  After spending six months in the Pacific, this coastal mooring profiler recovered by the Endurance 19 Team was covered…

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Back at It

After three weather days in the port of Astoria due to high seas and winds that would not allow at-sea operations to be done safely,…

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Leg 1 Getting the Job Done

  The Endurance Team worked hard all day and into the night to accomplish the recovery and deployment tasks for leg 1 of the Endurance…

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And They’re Off!

Gliders are an important component of the Coastal Endurance Array. They collect data from the water column in between the moorings. The first tasks of…

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