Category: Daily Blog 2013

Leg 4 of the VISIONS'13 UW-RSN OOI expedition ended in Seattle on August 20th after demobing the ROV ROPOS in Victoria. The ROPOS crew comple

We are almost home after our soon to be 47 days at sea. We arrived in Victoria BC at ~ 0730 this morning under calm seas and cloudy skies. With a

The VISIONS'13 expedition is nearing its completion. The R/V Thompson is on its way to Victoria to offload the ROV ROPOS, before transiting to

The many days of hard work and very long hours at …. paid off with very successful installations of secondary infrastructure.

Since the exciting and incredibly successful powering up of the high-definition camera, two short-period seismometers, and thermistor array,

The past few days have been filled with intense activity that culminated with a complete installation of secondary infrastructure at the

After transiting ~ 20 hrs from the base of the continental margin, we arrived once again at the place we have grown so fond of  – Axial Volc

Yesterday, after transiting west ~ 5 hours from Newport Oregon to Southern Hydrate Ridge, we conducted an ~ 8 hr dive (R1627) with the ROV ROPOS

This morning the R/V Thompson began its transit from Newport Oregon to Southern Hydrate Ridge. Onboard we have eight students, a group of enginee