Image Archive

The medium powered junction box at the Eastern Caldera site sits atop lobate flows at Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI.V20

The MJ03E junction box is moved into position for deployment with the ROV Jason at the Eastern Caldera Site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20

The MJ03E junction box is recovered latched beneath Jason after being on the seafloor 2583 days..and still fully functional. Credit. M. Elend, University of Washington.

A new junction box awaits final connection at the Eastern Caldera site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20

A brush is used to clear away anemones that are hiding access to the junction box at the Oregon Shelf site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V20

The MJ01C junction box at the Oregon Shelf site is completely encased in anemones. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V20.

The Jason pilots carefully use a manipulator to cover the open socket of the Oregon Shelf junction box with a protective 'dummy plug' after disconnecting the digital still camera. Anemones cover most of the rest of the surface of the platform. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A possessive shrimp colonized the junction box plug that we needed to disconnect to recover the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. The Jason ROV won the battle. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Anemones flourish on the hard surfaces of the Oregon Shelf junction box, luckily leaving a gap wide enough for the orange handle of the power plug needed to disconnect the digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Jason launched over the side of the R/V Revelle during the NSF-funded OOI Cabled Array expedition. A low voltage junction box, built by the UW Applied Physics Lab, is latched under the vehicles 'belly' to safely take it to the seafloor. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V18.