Category: Daily Blog 2014

After a successful deployment of the vertical mooring at Axial Base, the Thomas G Thompson returned to Newport, OR to reload the back deck for the next mooring deployment at Slope Base.

The engineering/science team and the crew of the ROV ROPOS and the R/V Thomas G. Thompson worked tirelessly and continuously for 30 hours to deploy a large and unique mooring at the base of Axial Seamount.

The main message for today’s update is an overwhelming thank you to the crew of the R/V Thompson and the ROPOS team for their hard work….

During a long dive to Southern Hydrate Ridge last night and into the morning today, all of this site is now completely installed

The past few days have seen the cessation of high winds and seas, so we have been able to resume diving.

The past few days have seen long days of work as we adjust and respond to ever-changing events associated with Mother Nature, two-ship operations, and installing some of the most complicated, technologically advanced systems

An important question for many researchers is “how much methane comes out of the seafloor? – we are striving to help answer this…

Last evening, we again visited Neptunea’s Garden, a vast expanse of Neptunea snails laying eggs that form yellow, woven-like stalks. It was a very busy night and today is more intense.

Today marked a historic moment for the OOI-RSN, with the successful installation of a large instrument platform and shallow winched profiler…