Watch Down to the Volcano, an online program about the VISIONS ’11 expedition.
The VISIONS ’11 expedition ended on 1 September 2011. The archived website is still available HERE.
Summary of Cruise Activities
- Successful at-sea education program with 11 undergraduate and graduate students who learned all aspects of seagoing research and life aboard an oceanographic research vessel, as well as conducting individual research projects
- Live high-definition, narrated video from the seafloor and ship delivered via the Internet to a global audience; Twitter used to interact with viewers on shore in real time; 70,000 website hits; undergraduate class in marine geology at College of Charleston taught from sea
- Stunning imagery transmitted and archived of “snowblowers” at the recently erupted Axial Volcano
- Canadian remotely operated vehicle (ROV) ROPOS used extensively in operations
- Successful deployment and recovery tests of the OOI RSN primary nodes
- Site verification of secondary node and sensor locations at Southern Hydrate Ridge and Axial Seamount, and for mooring infrastructure at base of Axial
- Surveys of primary cable that had been deployed earlier in summer 2011; discovery of segment laid through new and active vent field