Image Archive

An overhead shot showing the spatial relationship between junction box LJ01A and low-voltage node LV01A at the Slope Base site. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1735; V14.

ROPOS lifting the broadband hydrophone mast on LJ01A into position. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1735; V14.

An unidentified squid encountered during descent on dive #1735 at Slope Base. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1735; V14.

Image of a Velella velella jellyfish, University of Washington, V'14.

A Venus Flytrap anemone and another deep-sea anemone sharing the same stalk next to wire RS01W6, near the Slope Base site. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

A bloom of By-the-Wind Sailors (Velella velella), a type of colonial hydrozoan, seen at the surface at the Slope Base site. Credit: Skip Denny, APL, University of Washington, V'14.

A school of unidentified fish encountered by ROPOS near the surface at the Slope Base site during dive #1734. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

An echinothuriid sea urchin encountered following the wire during a survey of the cable lay by ROPOS. A Venus Flytrap Anemone can be seen in the lower right quadrant. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

Low Voltage node LV01A on the seafloor at Slope Base, as surveyed by ROPOS. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

The port arm of ROPOS reaching for the connector in a flange box on the seafloor at the Slope Base site. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

The port arm of ROPOS seating the plug connector of RS01W6 to J1 on Low Voltage node LV01A at the Slope Base site. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive 1734; V14.

ADCP (acoustic doppler current profiler) mounted on benthic platform.

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Jack McCafferty photo

An overhead shot from ROPOS hovering above the Slope Base Primary Node, PN1A. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1733; V14

A large school of fish near the surface at the Slope Base site. They may be Pacific Sand Lance. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1733; V14

A larvacean (the small, white, peanut-shaped object) inside its mucus house, feeding on marine snow at 700m depth at the Slope Base Site. Photo Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1733; V14

The R/V Thomas G. Thompson steaming into Newport following a successful Leg 1 of the VISIONS '14 cruise. Photo Credit: Kendra Daly, USF

A McLane wire-following profiler, modified to add inductive charging and communications, and holding a CTD, dissolved oxygen, fluorometer and 3D single point velocity sensors. Photo Credit: Kendra Daly, USF

The R/V Thomas G. Thompson docked in Newport between Legs 1 and 2 of the VISIONS '14 cruise. Photo credit: Michael Vardaro, Oregon State University

R/V Thompson docked in Newport between Legs 1 and 2 of the VISIONS14 cruise. Photo credit: Michael Vardaro, Oregon State University

The VISIONS14 Science Party and the ROPOS team congregated on the bow of the R/V Thompson for a final get together before coming into port into Newport OR. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

Students and educators for Leg 1 of the VISIONS’14 Expedition. Front: Chief Scientist John Delaney and Co-instructor for the UW Ocean 411 Class - Sea Going Research and Discovery. Left to right: Katie Bigham, Sam Albertson, Jesse Turnder, Gina Hansen, Don Setiawan, Charles Garcia, Krista Nunnally, Deb Kelley (Co-Chief Scientist and Co-instructor for Ocean 411), and Christina Ramirez. Back row left to right: Friedrich Knuth, John Wonderly (Clallam Bay School), Caitlin Russel, and Leslie Sautter (College of Charleston). Photo Credit. Mitch Elend, University of Washington.

The Thompson sails under the Newport Bridge as Leg 1 of VISIONS'14 ends. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington, V14.

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.

A close up of animals, including palm worms and tubeworms, on the hydrothermal chimney called Mushroom in the ASHES hydrothermal field. The image is a frame grab from video streamed during testing of the OOI-RCA high-definition video camera built by the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington. The camera has been at this site for 1 year. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/ V14.

During ROPOS Dive R1730, the UW-RCA high-definition video camera was tested successfully. The camera was installed in 2013 and 1-year later it worked extremely well. A test 3-D thermistor array (bottom right) that was installed last year rests on a diffuse flow site, covered in microbial filaments. To the left, a cabled 3-D thermistor array will replace the uncabled system. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; Dive ROPOS R1730; V14.