Image Archive

A lingcod brushes against the digital still camera at the Oregon Shelf site (80 m). The camera is covered in anemones and barnacles. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20.

The digital still camera at the Tiny Village site is covered in filamentous bacteria after a year-long deployment. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20.

Tunicates (aka sea squirts) covering the lamp of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Tunicates are chordates that start life as a swimming, fish-like animal and then settle on a surface and become sessile (attached) organisms that filter food out of the water flowing by. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A close-up of the barnacles, anemones, and tunicates covering every exposed surface of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The Oregon Shelf digital still camera, covered in barnacles, anemones, and tunicates (sea squirts), and sheltering a large lingcod, following a one-year deployment. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The UW-APL-built high definition camera lights up the 12-13 ft tall hot spring deposit called Mushroom, nearly 5000 ft beneath the oceans surface at the summit of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI,V18.

LED lights on the high definition camera, built by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, light up a ~1 m tall, young black smoker chimney at the base of the actively venting Mushroom edifice on Axial Seamount (water depth ~1500 m). The image, taken with the ROV Jason, shows the camera being tested by UW engineers during VISIONS16. They were in the Operations Center, located 300 miles to the east at the School of Oceanography. Here, they were commanding/controlling the camera live through the terrestrial and submarine Internet as part of the NSF Cabled Array infrastructure. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V16.

The ROV Jason 'looks' at a hybrid underwater wet-mate connector that connects the high definition camera to a ~ 4 km long extension cabled attached to Primary Node PN3B at the summit of Axial Seamount. This connection provides a 10 Gbs communication path to the terrestrial Internet located ~300 miles to the east. White bacterial mats line fractures in the lava-covered seafloor where diffusely flowing fluids are exiting the seafloor. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V16.

The high definition camera, built by the UW Applied Physics Lab, was reinstalled in 2016 during the VISIONS'16 cruise. The prior camera had been streaming video live to shore for two years. The camera was recovered to clear the outer window of biofouling. The camera is located at the hydrothermal chimney called Mushroom in the ASHES hydrothermal field on Axial Seamount. Video are streamed live from ~5000 ft down and >300 miles offshore onto the Internet 8 times a day. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V16.

A new high definition camera was installed at the hydrothermal vent called 'Mushroom' in the ASHES hydrothermal field atop Axial Volcano. The camera, built by the UW Applied Physics Lab, was tested today and streamed live HD imagery >300 miles back to shore from a water depth of >5000 m. Credit: Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS; Dive R1835; V15.