Category: Daily Blog 2013

July 13, ROPOS Dive 1603, marked the start of laying cable at the summmit of Axial Seamount. The first cable chosen was a "short" 600 m

With the first live streaming of data received from the seafloor, last ngiht was an historic moment for the OOI-NSF Regional Scale Nodes

July 10 was an exciting day for the UW-Regional Scale Nodes Team with the successful installation of >600 m (2000 ft) of extension cable onto

In the wee hours of the morning (July 10), we got our first look at Primary Node 3B since its installation by L3 MariPro in the summer of 2012. O

The weather was not on our side for the first day of Leg 2 and we had to delay launching the ROV until morning. After leaving Newport, OR at noon

We spent a long but successful night climbing up Southern Hydrate Ridge as we surveyed a 10 km cable route that will connect Primary Node 1B to i

On July 4th, we celebrated the successful testing and resolution of an electrical current imbalance on Primary Node 3B at the summit of Axial Seamount.

After leaving port the morning of July 2, the R/V Thompson steamed ~ 36 hours to Axial Seamount, over 350 miles offshore.

The R/V Thompson cast off from the UW dock at just past 9 am today, setting sail on the VISIONS ’13 expedition.