Completed Cable Installation Installation of the 870 km (540 miles) of the main, or backbone, OOI cable off the coast of Oregon was completed on September 5, 2011. Read More » September 23, 2011
Marine Mammal Observations We find ourselves on board the TE SubCom Dependable as part of a National Marine Fisheries Service condition… Read More » July 9, 2011
Communicating with a Fishing Vessel We still have Force 5/6 conditions with white caps, but the vessel hardly rocks or rolls. Read More » July 7, 2011
Cable Deployment Update 235 Km of the OOI cable have been deployed; 625 km remains to be deployed. The TE SubCom Dependable is currently sailing thro Read More » July 5, 2011
Off Pacific City Oregon We finished our transit this morning around 0800h and started gearing up for the prelay grapnel run just off Haystack Read More » July 3, 2011
ROV Dunk Test The installation of Segment 7 went fine overnight. By noon it was over… Read More » July 2, 2011
Finished with First Segment By noon we are done with the installation of our first segment!! The water depth is around 2,650m. Read More » July 1, 2011
Deploying Repeaters Still laying Segment 6 towards the west. The routine (for some) is interrupted by the passage of 2 repeaters through the system. These enormous a Read More » June 30, 2011
Start of First Cable Segment After 11 hours of transit, we are now at the location of the RSN Midplate node, at the start of our first cable segment (Segmen Read More » June 29, 2011
Leaving Astoria 1800h: We are leaving Astoria, right on time. The weather is great – well, of course it is grey and sort of raining but this is Oregon, right? Th Read More » June 28, 2011