View of RV Thompson from ROV ROPOS
![View of RV Thompson from ROV ROPOS](/files/wter.thompson.nice.day.sdi1_2014-07-2519_36_23_00057_med.jpg)
The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS is launched from the R/V Thompson. ROPOS will dive to 5000 ft beneath the ocean's surface to the summit of Axial Seamount. Today the ocean in the NE Pacific is calm. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1726; V14.