Image Archive

R/V Thompson crewmember Sue is always willing to lend a hand on the deck. Credit: Mitch Elend, UW; V15.

View of the bridge near the entrance to Newport while heading out for the start of Leg 3. Credit: Mitch Elend, UW; V15.

A trawl-resistant Benthic Experiment Package is latched under ROPOS and ready for deployment at the EA Shelf (60 m) Site. Credit: Mitch Elend, UW; V15.

Trina (APL-UW) does final preparation and checkout of a SAMI-pH sensor before the Platform Interface Controller is deployed. Credit: Mitch Elend (UW);V15.

Kent Fletcher (OSU) uses a power washer to clean external surface of a trawl-resistant Benthic Experiment Package recovered from the EA Shelf (60 m) Site. Credit, Mitch Elend, UW; V15.

Tim McGinnis and Nick Michel-Hart of the UW Applied Physics Laboratory begin to disassemble and inspect the crawler recovered from the Deep Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: Mitch Elend, UW; V15.

The fantail of the R/V Thompson loaded with junction boxes, science pods for the Shallow Profiler Moorings, and a variety of instruments. Credit: Jesse Turner, University of Washington, V15.

A before and after image of the fantail on the R/V Thompson the day we left port (August 26) and came back (September 10). In between these two port calls, we came back into Newport and loaded another complete set of gear to install on the seafloor. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Leg 3 students on the VISIONS'14 Expedition gather on the bow of the R/V Thompson. Photo Credit. Mitch Elend, UW; V14.

Deployment of the 200m platform of the Endurance Oregon Offshore two-legged mooring, which will eventually host a winched shallow profiler and bioacoustic sonar instruments. Two mooring lines with seafloor anchors are attached to the sides of the platform (rather than the usual single mooring line) to add stability to the platform so it can act as the profiler base. Photo Credit: Skip Denny, APL/UW

Deployment of the 200m platform of the Endurance Oregon Offshore two-legged mooring, which will eventually host a winched shallow profiler and bioacoustic sonar instruments. Two mooring lines with seafloor anchors are attached to the sides of the platform (rather than the usual single mooring line) to add stability to the platform so it can act as the profiler base. Photo Credit: Skip Denny, APL/UW

Bubble plumes above Southern Hydrate Ridge Summit as imaged by the R/V Thompson's multibeam sonar. These sonar surveys were used to plan CTD casts to sample for methane in the water column. Credit: Bob Collier, OSU

The Thompson crane moving the Benthic Experiment Platform from the aft deck to the ROPOS launch area, prior to deployment at Oregon Offshore (600 m depth). Credit: Rhea Sanders, Oregon State University

The equipment and instruments to be deployed at Endurance Offshore and Slope Base during Leg 3 of VISIONS 14. Photo Credit: Skip Denny, APL-UW

The deployment of the HPIES (Horizontal Electrometer Pressure Inverted Echosounder) instrument off the fantail of the Thompson at the Axial Base site. The instrument was designed to freefall to the seafloor from the surface, and did so successfully. Photo Credit: Ed McNichol, Mumbian Enterprises, Ltd.

During the evening of July 28th, the Main Lab of the R/V Thompson was filled with the Science and ROV Teams watching the live test of the HD video camera at the ASHES vent on Axial Seamount. The camera had not been turned on for 1 year. The test was a resounding success. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

Dana Manalang and Eric Olsen (UW) work with UW students Gina Hansen and Don Setiawan to.prepare the end of a fiber optic cable segment so that it can be spooled by hand onto the large cable spool. The spool will then be transported by ROCLS for installation on the seafloor.  Photo credit:  Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Panoramic view of the R/V Thompson fantail as it departs for Axial Seamount on the VISIONS'14 OOI expedition. Green-sided frames are junction boxes that will be installed at the volcano and they willl host myriad instruments. The central drum holds yellow extension cable that will connect one of the juction boxes to  Primary Node 3B, providing power and bandwith to this subsea observatory. Photo credit: Skip Denny, University of Washington, V14

The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS dives into the darkness during the VISIONS'11 expedition.

Adrian Rembold is excited to take a ride in the small boat to recover a transponder that was released by ROPOS. (photo by Ed McNichol)

Alexandra Powell from the University of Western Ontario helps to prepare samples from a CTD cast for helium samples. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

The ROV ROPOS during its launch for dive #1471 on August 27th. 

ROPOS pilot Jonathan Lee controls the ROV as it begins its descent down through the water column. APL-UW engineer James Tilley operates the HD camera in the background. (photo by Mitch Elend) 

Co-chief Scientist Debbie Kelley shows the difference between a normal sized Styrofoam head with one that was shrunken by sending it to ~1000 meters water depth. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Tina Haskins of Rutgers University prepares to deploy the Slocum Glider that will survey the perimeter of Axial Seamount for the duration of Leg 2. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Rutger's Slocum glider was deployed August 21st to begin surveying the perimeter of Axial Seamount's caldera to a depth of 1000 meters. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Debbie Kelley, John Kelley, and Alden Denny look over newly acquired EM302 data. (photo by Allison Fundis)