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- Node Installations Complete!
- Six on the Seafloor!
- New Segment 7
- Defining the SIA
- PN5A Successfully Deployed!
- PN 5A – Jointing Operations
- PN 5A Installation Continues
- On Site to Install PN5A
- Transit to Node 5A
- Port Call in Portland
- PN1D is Installed!
- Burial and Inspection Completed ...
- Humpbacks Visit
- Cable Burial Node PN1C
- Milestone: PN1C is Installed
- Photos of Final Inspection of P ...
- Another RSN Node is Born!
- Cable Burial Continues at Secon ...
- Second Node Installed!
- Splicing Node PN1B into Segment ...
- Recovering End of Segment 3
- Word for the Day: Persistence
- Major Milestone: First Node Ins ...
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- Recovering and Testing Cable Se ...
- OOI Primary Node Installation B ...
- Cable Installation Update
- Dolphins and Puffins and Molas, ...
- Day 51: Seabed Cable Lay Comple ...
- Dynamic Positioning
- Update on Cable Installation
- Completion of Segment 1 Burial
- Leaps and Bounds at the Shore S ...
- Segment 5 Installation Complete ...
- Laying Segment 5
- Bustling Shore Station
- At-Sea Installation Phases
- Installing the Land Cable
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- Second OOI Cable Landed
- Second Cable Landing Reschedule ...
- OOI Open House in Pacific City, ...
- The Cable has Landed!
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- Preparing for the Cable Landing ...
- Seaplow 101
- Marine Mammal Observations
- Communicating with a Fishing Ve ...
- Cable Deployment Update
- Off Pacific City, Oregon
- Finished with First Segment
- Deploying Repeaters
- Start of First Cable Segment
- Leaving Astoria
- Meeting the Cable Ship in Astor ...
- Cable Laying Vessel Underway
- Photos of OOI Cable Loading
- Northern conduit installed
- Northern Conduit drilling compl ...
- Bubble test for the Southern Co ...
- Drilling of the Northern Condui ...
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Things are shaping up onboard The TE SubCom Dependable in preparation for the cable landings in Pacific City, now scheduled for July 12 and July 14. Lines of red buoys are being laid out on deck to "float" the cable to the exit point of each horizontal direction drilling conduit. From there, assisted by divers, the OOI cable will be pulled to shore along the 1.5km of steel pipe drilled months ago under the seabed from the parking lot at our landing site in Pacific City.
The TE SubCom crew is working hard to make sure the sea plow is ready for the job. It has had a fresh coat of paint just before this trip, and will soon be covered in mud! This should be interesting.... The same crew is also working on the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) that will be used in areas where the plow cannot be used for cable burial, in particular at the end of each cable segment. Everybody on board is anxious to finally get out of "Post Lay Grapnel Run (PLGR) mode." That's for sure!
--Cecile Durand, the OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager at the University of Washington, reports from aboard the TE SubCom Dependable.