Visions13 Blog
Creatures of the Deep on the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Thursday, October 17, 2013
One of the VISIONS '13 student projects is a short video on some of the amazing deep-sea creatures of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. ...
Leg 4 Team Returns to Seat
Friday, August 23, 2013
Leg 4 of the VISIONS'13 UW-RSN OOI expedition ended in Seattle on August 20th after demobing the ROV ROPOS in Victoria. The ROPOS crew comple ...
Arrived in Victoria BC
Monday, August 19, 2013
We are almost home after our soon to be 47 days at sea. We arrived in Victoria BC at ~ 0730 this morning under calm seas and cloudy skies. With a ...
Operations Complete
Saturday, August 17, 2013
The VISIONS'13 expedition is nearing its completion. The R/V Thompson is on its way to Victoria to offload the ROV ROPOS, before transiting to ...
Success During the OOI-NSF
Friday, August 16, 2013
The many days of hard work and very long hours at .... paid off with very successful installations of secondary infrastructure. ...
Days Flying By
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Since the exciting and incredibly successful powering up of the high-definition camera, two short-period seismometers, and thermistor array, ...
First Complete Installatio
Monday, August 12, 2013
The past few days have been filled with intense activity that culminated with a complete installation of secondary infrastructure at the ...
Back to Axial Volcano
Friday, August 09, 2013
After transiting ~ 20 hrs from the base of the continental margin, we arrived once again at the place we have grown so fond of - Axial Volc ...
Installing Caissons and Co
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Yesterday, after transiting west ~ 5 hours from Newport Oregon to Southern Hydrate Ridge, we conducted an ~ 8 hr dive (R1627) with the ROV ROPOS ...
Beginning Leg 4
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
This morning the R/V Thompson began its transit from Newport Oregon to Southern Hydrate Ridge. Onboard we have eight students, a group of enginee ...
End of VISIONS '13 Leg 3
Sunday, August 04, 2013
Leg 3 of VISIONS ’13 is rapidly drawing to a close as we near the mouth of Yaquina Bay and the OSU dock at Newport, Oregon. The cruis ...
Poetry Night on Leg 3
Thursday, August 01, 2013
The "Old Women by the Sea" poem by Pablo Neruda; the "I've known rivers" words of poet Langston Hughes. A song about a love potion gone awry. ...
Cable Route Planning
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Today was the last dive at Axial Seamount to survey one of the secondary cables and pick up the junction box we used for testing before we batten ...
Working at the Vents Again
Monday, July 29, 2013
We’ve been treated to some amazing seafloor scenery over the past day and night as ROPOS has surveyed sites and then deployed instruments i ...
Earthquake Data!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
There’s excitement ricocheting around the ship as word spreads that our small network of instruments—two seismometers and one bottom- ...
Overcoming Challenges
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Overcoming unexpected challenges is part of any oceanographic cruise. On Tuesday, 23 July, the VISIONS ’13 team was presented with an unexp ...
Diving at Axial
Monday, July 22, 2013
Not long after completing the 18-hour transit to the Eastern Caldera site on Axial Seamount, ROV ROPOS was successfully launched over the side of ...
Transition: Leg 2 to Leg 3
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Leg 2 of the VISIONS ’13 cruise ended at 09:00 on July 18 when the Thompson tied up at the NOAA Marine Operations Center dock in Newport, O ...
Wiring a Volcano
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
On July 15, we completed installation of 15,364 feet (4683 meters) of fiber optic extension cable on the summit of Axial Seamount from Primary Node 3B ...
Laying Cable at the Summit
Sunday, July 14, 2013
July 13, ROPOS Dive 1603, marked the start of laying cable at the summmit of Axial Seamount. The first cable chosen was a "short" 600 m ...
First Live Data From the S
Saturday, July 13, 2013
With the first live streaming of data received from the seafloor, last ngiht was an historic moment for the OOI-NSF Regional Scale Nodes ...
Installing the First Exten
Thursday, July 11, 2013
July 10 was an exciting day for the UW-Regional Scale Nodes Team with the successful installation of >600 m (2000 ft) of extension cable onto ...
Our First Look at Primary
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
In the wee hours of the morning (July 10), we got our first look at Primary Node 3B since its installation by L3 MariPro in the summer of 2012. O ...
Laying the first Extension
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
After bad weather prevented the VISIONS'13 team from deploying the secondary node and extension cable at the primary node 1A site at the Slop ...
