{"id":536762,"date":"2025-09-25T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536762"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:03:40","slug":"buoy-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/buoy-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Buoy Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"190\" data-end=\"502\">A typical recovery of a Coastal Surface Mooring begins by hooking into the buoy and releasing the mooring from its anchor. The mooring is then carefully brought aboard through the ship\u2019s stern A-frame. The anchor remains on the seafloor during this process and is recovered separately at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"674\">This approach allows the science team to safely and efficiently bring in the buoy, sensors, and riser components while maintaining control of the heavy anchor recovery.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_536756\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536756\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-536756 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/09\/buoy-approach-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-536756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Maya Moran (OSU)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical recovery of a Coastal Surface Mooring begins by hooking into the buoy and releasing the mooring from its anchor. The mooring is then carefully brought aboard through the ship\u2019s stern A-frame. The anchor remains on the seafloor during this process and is recovered separately at a later stage. This approach allows the science&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[331],"tags":[330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536764,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536762\/revisions\/536764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}