Category: Cruise Blog 2023

The Regional Cabled Array, spanning the Cascadia Margin and Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and water depths of ~260 ft to 9500

Leg 4 began on Thursday, September 7 with 10 excited VISIONS’23 students arriving at the Newport NOAA Dock around 1400 hrs.  The

Leg 3 (which was completed on 6 September) was a mix of highs and lows. We started with rough weather conditions that

Unlike Leg 2, where we had almost creepily calm conditions, Leg 3 once again began with unfavorable weather. Even staying in port

Southern Hydrate Ridge (SHR) is a highly dynamic environment with multiple sites where methane gas bubbles are issuing from the seafloor, derived

Although our visit to Axial Seamount on this leg was brief, we accomplished much in the roughly 36 hours we spent onsite.

After the successful conclusion of the very challenging first leg of VISIONS’23, we demobilized from Leg 1 and mobilized for Leg 2

Under very calm seas and beautiful blue skies, Leg 1 comes to an end…along the way we have experienced multiple successes –

Dax Soule, Queens College This has been a challenging few days at sea. You might not expect that a team of scientists