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A swarm of beautiful salp aggregates swim around the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base at a water depth of ~ 600 ft. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V21.

The 12 ft across platform on the Slope Base Shallow Profiler mooring is home to a variety of fauna, thriving in the nutrient-rich currents. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V20.

Th R/V Thompson in the NE Pacific on a beautiful evening - it's great to be a sea. Credit: I. Borchert, University of Washington, V20.

The winched profiler awaits final installation at the Oregon Offshore site. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20

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.

This science pod was cut loose from the Axial Base Shallow Profiler mooring on Sunday morning and was throughly cleaned by an eager group of students. The growth visible on the pod comes after just one year in the water, and since many of the instruments on the pod require unobstructed intake lines for sampling, the pods must be replaced yearly. 

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.

Eric McRae, an engineer at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory, checks out an instrumented science pod to be installed on a Shallow Profiler Mooring during the VISIONS'17 cruise. Credit: D. Kelley, University of Washington.

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 Shallow Profiler Mooring 12-ft across, 7 ton platform hosts a new Science Pod (left) and Platform Interface Assembly (PIA, right) installed on Jason Dive J2-917 as part of the annual maintance operations for these moorings. The 'mother' platform sprouts a variety of life that was not present last year when we turned the Science Pod and PIA. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; V16.

Final preparations on the whiched, instrumented Science Pod before it is latched under the belly of the ROV Jason for installation on the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

The Titan manipulators on the ROV Jason conduct complex operations during installation of the Platform Interface Assembly hosting multiple instruments. The PIA is attached to the 200 m deep, 12 foot across platform on the two-legged Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, Dive J911,V16.

Krill surroung the small "cage" housing the cable connection from the Shallow Profiler at Axial Base to the extension cable connecting the Profiler to the power and communications. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, Dive J910, V16.

The new instrumented science pod, all bright and shiney, is installed on the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, V16.

The ROV Jason surveys the Shallow Profiler platform located ~ 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Eighteen instruments on the platform and profiling science pod have been sending data live to shore for a year, all connected to the Internet. Both science pods have now been replaced during the annual, planned maintenance of this system. Operation of this infrastructure takes place at the University of Washington Operations Center in the School of Oceanography. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; V16.

The ROV Jason breaches the oceans surface latched into an instrumented Platform Interface Assembly that has been installed for a year on a Shallow Profiler Mooring at the base of Axial Seamount. Connected to the submarine cable, the instruments have been sending sending data live back to shore since summer 2015 from 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

The ROV Jason is latched into a recovered, instrumented Science Pod on a Shallow Profiler Mooring at the base of Axial Seamount. The winched profiler has made >2000 trips up and down through the water column. Connected to the submarine cable, the instruments have been sending sending data live back to shore since summer 2015 from 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

Since the late summer, 2015, each of the three cabled Shallow Profiler Mooring winched science pods have made >7000 cycles from 600 ft water depth to just beneath the oceans' surface. Real-time command and control of these systems through the Internet provides response capabilites such that the science pods can be stopped to take key measurements in response to events that include the passing over of biologically-rich thin layers. Credit: University of Washington, NSF-OOI/ROPOS, V15.

A very large anemone and octopus call the anchor of the Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring home. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS; V15 ROPOS Dive R1848.

The Oregon Slope Base Shallow Profiler, engulfed in soft sunlight, rises to ~5 m beneath the ocean's surface. It is measuring nutrients, dissolved oxygen, seawater acidity, temperature, chlorophyll, and carbon dioxide concentrations at high temporal and spatial resolution, controlled from ~70 miles onshore through the Internet at the University of Washington. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; V15.

Leg 1 of the Cabled Array VISIONS"15 expedition has been extremelly successful with the back deck of the R/V Thompson bulging at the seams with recovered infrastructure and instruments. ROPOS has had rapid turn arounds, pounding out dives. The science crew is tired, but happy. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

ROPOS latches into a Shallow Profiler for installation during the Cabled Array VISIONS'15 cruise. Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V15.

A first glimpse of the shallow winched profiler coming out of its docking station at the base of Axial Seamount. NSF/OOI/UW/ISS; Dive R1842; V15.

A side-looking view of the 12 ft-across Shallow Profiler Mooring platform hosting newly installed instrumented science pods. Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS; Dive R1831; V15.

ROPOS preparng to plug the VM EOM cable into the FACT strongback. Photo credit:  NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1788; V14

Preparing to deploy the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Photo Credit: Colin Katagiri