Daily Log
Welcome to the VISIONS '18 Daily Log. Follow our expedition onboard the R/V Roger Revelle using the remotely operated vehicle Jason, June 19-August 5, 2018. The goal of this cruise is to complete the fourth year of the Operations and Maintenance component of the National Science Foundations' Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cable Array. Efforts during this expedition includes recovering and installing >100 cabled instruments on the seafloor and in the water column from depths of 10,000 ft beneath the oceans' surface. We will also be adding numerous new instruments with funding to outside researchers from the National Science Foundation, Office of Navy Research and from the University of Bremen, Germany. Here, daily updates will be provided, as well as a look-ahead at follow-on operations.
A Shifting Perspective
Wednesday, August 01, 2018
"Once we're on station we'll dive to unplug and recover the mooring. We won’t need the winch or crane until they start the deck ops" The confidence with which I said that ...
Research Cruise? Me?
Monday, July 30, 2018
Imagine you sign up for a research cruise, your first... what should you expect? I was 53 when I got this opportunity; more likely you will be in your late teens or early twenties. ...
Scooping Up Zooplankton From
Friday, July 27, 2018
This is my second time sailing with the OOI Cabled Array team from UW APL and the School of Oceanography, with a mission to scoop up some zooplankton from the ocean. ...
Farther and Deeper We Go
Monday, July 23, 2018
Leg 4 has gotten off to a good start. The R/V Revelle left Newport the evening of July 20th for the last time this cruise. The primary goal of this last leg is to repair or replace the three ...
Leg 3 Short but Sweet and Re
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The goals to be accomplished during the annual Cabled Array maintenance cruises are based primarily on the required refurbishment schedules for the various components of the CA infrastructure. ...
Port Call and Leg 3 Begins
Sunday, July 15, 2018
The arrival of the RV Revelle at the NOAA dock in Newport shortly after noon local time on July 11th signaled the beginning of the intricate dance of offloading equipment recovered during Leg 2 ...
A Very Successful First Two
Friday, July 13, 2018
The VISIONS experience changes people’s lives! It doesn’t only affect the students’ educational future, it affects their personal lives as well. ...
With Gratitude
Sunday, July 08, 2018
Tonight it is with reluctance that we leave Axial Seamount where we have been working 24/7 for the past several days. We are so very lucky to be able to do this work, funded by the National Science Foundation. ...
Diving in Extreme Environmen
Friday, July 06, 2018
The past two days again have been very busy as we check off our long list of tasks to complete for this Leg of the NSF-OOI Cabled Array cruise. The UW team has been working very long hours to get the job done as diving in the hydrothermal fields ...
Crazy Busy and Alighting the
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
How can it already be 3 days since we left Newport – we are in a time warp where the nights/days fly buy. On the way out of Newport, we had hoped to install the Benthic Experiment Platform at the Oregon Shelf Site at 80 m water depth. Howe ...
Leg 1 Down-Onward We Go
Monday, July 02, 2018
The transition between Leg 1 and Leg 2 flew by in Newport. The R/V Revelle arrived in Newport at ~3 pm under blue, sunny skies. Folks used the evening to walk around town and stretch their legs. At 0800 Saturday morning, Larry Nielson, the lead ...
Learning Patience At Sea
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
During the past 48 hrs we have been keeping our eyes and thoughts on the weather, and for some, relearning patience at sea as the weather gods/goddeses test us with only three days left to get all our work done on this first Leg. ...
Very Busy Days and Nights
Monday, June 25, 2018
Since we left port on June 23, the days have flown by. We have been incredibly busy completing Jason Dives 1043-1049. Many of the Cabled Array team has been work ...
Its Wonderful to Be at Sea A
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Today the R/V Revelle left Newport at 1000 to begin the National Science Foundations’ ...
Off to Sea We Go
Monday, June 04, 2018
The Ocean Observatories Cabled Array team from the UW School of Oceanography is about to set off on another 47-day exciting expedition ...
