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A nursery of Neptunea snails rest atop their egg stalks, babysitting them until the adult snails die and fall off the stalks. The eggs are laid on small carbonate cobbles. Rockfish, sole, spider crabs, and hermit crabs wander through the forest of stalks. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1758; V14.  

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Leg 4 VISIONS '14 undergraduate and graduate students include Oceanography, Engineering, and Earth and Space Sciences. Image Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

The Horizontal Electrometer-Pressure-Inverted Echosounder (HPIES -HPIESA101) installed at the Slope Base site. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1757; V14.  

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

During the port call for Leg 4 in Newport, Oregon, the UW-APL-built Shallow Winched Profiler was loaded onto the R/V Thompson. The system has an underwater level wind that "spools" out yellow cable, which will provide power and communications to an attached instrument "pod" (orange bulbous-shaped package bottom left). The profiler will be located at a water depth of ~197 m on the already installed mooring at the EA Offshore Site. Several times a day the instrument pod will rise from the 197-m-deep platform to just beneath the ocean's surface making critical chemical and biological measurements. Photo Credit: Skip Denny, APL-UW; V14.

The back deck of the R/V Thompson was fully loaded with instruments, junction boxes, cable spools, and mooring components that were installed during Leg 4. Image Credit: Skip Denny, UW-APL; 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.  

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A sunstar (Pycnopodia) seen at the Endurance Oregon Shelf site during a survey (80 meters water depth) Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R1756, V14

A well-camouflaged octopus encountered during a survey at the Oregon Shelf site (80 meters water depth). Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, ROPOS Dive R1756, V14.

A pink anemone seen on the seafloor at the Endurance Oregon Shelf site (80 meters water depth) Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R1756, V14

Euphausiids (small shrimp-like crustaceans) Oregon Shelf site (80 meters water depth) Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, R1756, V14.

A Sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia) encountered during a site survey at the Endurance Oregon Shelf site (80 meters) Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF, Dive R1756, V14

A methane bubble plume west of Einstein's Grotto at Southern Hydrate Ridge Summit. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Dive R1754, V14.

Exposed gas hydrate (a clathrate of water ice that forms around methane) observed in Einstein,s Grotto at the Southern Hydrate Ridge summit. Large bubbles were escaping intermittently from the crevice, indicating an active methane seep. A rockfish is sheltering within the grotto as well. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI//CSSF, ROPOS Dive R1754, VI14.