During the VISIONS'16 expedition it is anticpated that previously deployed instruments will be recovered and replaced as part of annual maintaince on the OOI Cable Array. The instruments include those that measure physical, biological, chemi
Location: 44°38.238ºN 124°18.336ºW Water Depth: 80 meters
The Oregon Inshore Site, at a water depth of 80 m, is the shallowest
Location: 44.2ºN 124.6ºW Water Depth: 585 to 615 meters
The Endurance Offshore Study Site at OOI RSN Primary Node PN1C will host two cabled m
Location: 44.6ºN 125.1ºW Water Depth: 780-771 meters
The Southern Hydrate Ridge study site (~10 km north of Primary Node PN1B) ho
Axial Seamount is the most magmatically robust volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge spreading center, having erupted in 1998 and most re
The Cabled Array relies on telecom industry sub-sea cable to provide power (10 kV DC, up to 8 A) and communications (10 Gb/s) via fiber-optics and copper between the Primary Nodes and the Shore Station in Pacific City, Oregon.
Eighteen junction boxes have been operational since they were installed and hooked up to the Primary Infrastructure in 2014.
The state-of-the-art Shallow Profiler mooring features a two-legged system that terminates at a 200-m Platform. The 12 ft across platform hosts an instrumented winched Shallow Profiler that travels from 200 m to just below the oceans surface
