Image Archive

40-hour plot of water temperature vs. time and depth November 28 — 30, 2013.

The Deep Profiler vehicle being installed on the mooring cable at the Friday Harbor test site. The FHL Pump House, which contains the power supply and other shore equipment, is shown in the background.

The RSN Deep Profiler (DP) system is designed to collect oceanographic data profiles in water depths of up to 3000m. The DP system includes a modified McLane Mooring Profiler (MMP) vehicle that uses a motor traction drive to profile from near the sea surface to the seafloor along a tensioned mooring cable with a subsurface float. The system's dock assembly near the seafloor includes an inductive battery-charging dock for the vehicle battery, an inductive communication system that provides communications during profiling, and a Wi-fi antenna that provides high-speed communications while in the charging dock. The dock electronics will connect to the RSN power and fiber-optic data network using ROV-mateable underwater connectors. (Illustration by Nick Michel-Hart, University of Washington)

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The ROV ROPOS suctions sediment out of a caisson for installation of a broadband seismometer. Once in place the caisson will be filled with silica beads to create a quiet environment. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1627; V14.

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