Exploring Full Ocean Depths: Advanced RCA Deep Profilers

In 2024, Paige McKay, a School of Oceanography student with a focus on ocean technology, sailed as a VISIONS student on the Regional Cabled Array. She was fascinated with the technology, capabilities and science allowed by the instrumented vehicles that traversed up to ~2750 m of water column as part of the cabled Profiler Moorings. This video explores the advanced capabilities developed by engineers in the UW Applied Physics Laboratory that provides unprecedented measurements of key ocean parameters continuously 24/7 along the Cascadia Margin and in the blue water environment 300 miles offshore at the base of Axial Seamount. During their operations, they have traversed millions of meters of ocean water. Credit: Paige McKay, VISIONS’24, UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V24.