{"id":536905,"date":"2025-11-18T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536905"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:27:27","slug":"a-curious-visitor-during-rov-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/a-curious-visitor-during-rov-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Curious Visitor During ROV Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"114\" data-end=\"410\">During the recovery of the Western shallow-water mooring, the ROV was sent down to check on the multi-function node. As we monitored the video feed, it turned out we weren\u2019t the only ones watching &#8211; an inquisitive fish paused in front of the camera, giving the ROV a close look before drifting off.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"475\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A small reminder that we always have company under the surface.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_536906\" style=\"width: 2093px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-536906\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-536906 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2083\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-scaled.jpg 2083w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-833x1024.jpg 833w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-768x944.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-1250x1536.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0546-1666x2048.jpg 1666w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2083px) 100vw, 2083px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-536906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Rebecca Travis, WHOI<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the recovery of the Western shallow-water mooring, the ROV was sent down to check on the multi-function node. As we monitored the video feed, it turned out we weren\u2019t the only ones watching &#8211; an inquisitive fish paused in front of the camera, giving the ROV a close look before drifting off. A small&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[332],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536905"}],"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=536905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536907,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536905\/revisions\/536907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}