Daily log from VISIONS '13
Welcome to the VISIONS '13 Log. Follow our six-week, four-leg expedition on the R/V Thompson. The focus of this cruise is on deployment and testing of the nearly 24,000 meters of extension cables that are part of the OOI cabled ocean observatory.
Leg 4 Team Returns to Seattl
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 V
Wednesday, October 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 Installation
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 Cond
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 ...
Reflecting on Leg 3
Mary Miller of the Exploratorium has been blogging about her participation in Leg 3 of VISIONS '13. Her most ...
Under the Sea, Down in the M
One of the ship activities I enjoy most is watching the ROV ROPOS descend through the water column so I can do some wildlife viewing along the wa ...
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 ...
As the Spool Turns
Today, it was all about the cables that deliver power and data to the ocean observatory’s secondary nodes at the Axial volcano. ...
Waiting for the (Not Terribl
Check out the latest blog post from Mary Miller of the Exploratorium who is onboard VISIONS '13: ...
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 ...
History on the High Seas
"History is being made on the VISIONS '13 expedition, but it sometimes comes in fits and starts." ...
Finding my Way on a Research
Mary Miller, Project Director for the Public Understanding of Research at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, is onboard the Thompson during VISI ...
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 o
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 Sea
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 Extensi
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 No
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 C
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 ...
Weathering Delays
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
The weather was not on our side for the first day of Leg 2 and we had to delay launching the ROV until morning. After leaving Newport, OR at noon ...
Site Verifications at Hydrat
Saturday, July 06, 2013
We spent a long but successful night climbing up Southern Hydrate Ridge as we surveyed a 10 km cable route that will connect Primary Node 1B to i ...
Successful Testing of Primar
Friday, July 05, 2013
On July 4th, we celebrated the successful testing and resolution of an electrical current imbalance on Primary Node 3B at the summit of Axial Seamount. ...
Starting Work at Axial Volca
Thursday, July 04, 2013
After leaving port the morning of July 2, the R/V Thompson steamed ~ 36 hours to Axial Seamount, over 350 miles offshore. ...
Thompson Sets Sail for VISIO
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
The R/V Thompson cast off from the UW dock at just past 9 am today, setting sail on the VISIONS '13 expedition. ...
Loading Cable Spools
Sunday, June 30, 2013
With ROV ROPOS and its vans already loaded onto the R/V Thompson (work that was done while the ship was docked at Pier 90 in Seattle on ...
ROPOS dunk test in Puget Sou
Saturday, June 29, 2013
On Saturday, June 29, with ROPOS loaded and after leaving Pier 90 ...
