Image Archive

Initial view of the Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring on first approach with the ROV Jason (Dive1043) in 2018. The main platform was installed in 2014: the winched Science Pod is swiched out annually. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI.

A swarm of black cod circle the vehicle during recovery and installation of a junction box at 600 m water depth offshore of Newport. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; J2-986; V17.

A close up view of the newly installed winched Shallow Profiler at the Oregon Offshore site. The platform is at 200 m water depth. The manipulator arm of the ROV Jason is about to pull a couple of pull pins to let the Science Pod be free. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI.

A close up of the cabled Shallow Profiler Mooring at the Oregon Offshore site showing the Platform Interface Assembly (left) and the top of the winched Shallow Profiler Science Pod (right). The platform inbetween was installed in 2014 and is now heavily colonized by animals. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI.

Life thrives on the Shallow Profiler Mooring platforms at 200 m beneath the oceans' surface. This 12 ft across mooring platform is coated in dense communities of very large anenomes, small pink sea urchins, feathery brown crinoids , and small crabs and shrimp...the closer you look the more you see. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/Jason.

The mooring platform at the Oregon Offshore Site (~600 ft beneath the oceans' surface) abounds with life, supported by the nutrient-rich waters that characterize this area. Small crabs, urchins, and sea stars have colonized the platform since installed in 2014 during the VISIONS'14 cruise. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-919, V16.

THe Oregon Endurance Offshore instrumented profiler travels down the wire on the Deep Profiling Mooring during its initial testing following installation. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS.V15, Dive R1859.

THe UW Applied Physics Lab team brings in the Deep Profiler off of the mooring cable and onto the R/V Thompson during Leg 2 of the Cabled Array VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: University of Washington; V15.

Eric Boget from the Applied Physics Lab and Brian Clampitt from the R/V Thompson work to bring teh anchor for the Deep Profiler Mooring onboard during Leg 2 of the VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: University of Washington, V15.

The UW Applied Physics Lab team and the R/V Thompson crew are about to pull in the mooring cable on the Deep Profiler Mooring at the Oregon Offshore site. Credit: University of Washington, V15.

During dive R1674, the instrumented shallow winched profiler system was installed onto the platform at 197 m water depth on the tw-legged mooring. This marks a first of the OOI program. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1764; V14.  

Dive R1762 at the EA Oregon Offshore Site installed and connected a 120 m 'oily' cable between junction box LV01C and the base of the EOM cable for the two-legged shallow profiler mooring. Video credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1762; V14.  

Orest Kawka (RSN School of Oceanography Project Scientist) and Trina Litchendorf (RSN APL Engineer) work on the EA Oregon Offshore Shallow Winched Profiler, and Instrument Platform on the fantail of the R/V Thompson. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

The two-legged Shallow Profiler Mooring was installed on ROPOS Dive R1753 at the Oregon Offshore Site (600 m). The instrumented winched shallow profiler and platform instrument systems will be installed on Leg 4. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1753; V14.