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Construction
- 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 ...
- Primary Node 1A Powered Up on D ...
- 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
- TE SubCom Dependable Propulsion ...
- Divers at Work
- The Day After
- Second OOI Cable Landed
- Second Cable Landing Reschedule ...
- OOI Open House in Pacific City, ...
- The Cable has Landed!
- Last Grapnel Run Before Landing ...
- 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 ...
- Update on Drilling
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By 0300h the end of cable Segment 2 was buoyed off and we were headed to the end of our next cable segment (3), a few miles away. This time around, our grapnel "beast" did the trick of snagging the ground rope at the end of the cable on the first attempt: Segment 3 was on board within a few hours.
As I write this at 2000h we are recovering several kilometers of Segment 3, backing up on our track, and getting ready for installation of the second node PN1B, which will join cable Segments 2 and 3. The weather has improved, morale is back up after the long recovery effort required for the shallow end of Segment 2, and we are looking forward to our next milestone!
--Cecile Durand, OOI Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington, at sea aboard the TE SubCom Dependable.