VISIONS’22 blog

Credit: OOI-NSF/UW/CSSF.

You can keep up with daily activities during RCA VISIONS’22 by watching a live stream video and reading daily blogs written by both the science party and student participants.  Be sure to bookmark this site and check back often!

This 45-day expedition beginning August 5 promises to be exciting.  This highly complex operation will be conducted over five Legs.  Activities are many and varied and include the installation of instrumented state-of-the-art science pods on moorings that rise 9800 ft above the seafloor, the recovery and reinstallation of over 200 instruments, and numerous cabled substations on the seafloor that provide power and communications to cabled instruments and moorings located up to 300 miles offshore. Staffing alone includes nearly 180 berths for scientists, engineers, students, and the ROPOS crew over the cruise duration.