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On the bow of the boat

ROPOS's crane

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Sunset Day 4

Camera team testing equipment off the side

Matt Knight relaxing at the bow of the ship

ROPOS equipment

The bridge

Beautiful day above Axial Seamount

To highlight the impacts of pressure and for relaxing downtime, it is a common tradition on ROV cruises to color styrofoam heads and cups and take them down to the seafloor. Styrofoam cups come up about 1 inch tall. This head has not yet been "shrunk" but will go down in a few days.

Overlapping pillow flows are enclosed by islands of sediment along the flanks of Axial Seamount. Credit: NSF-OOI/CSSF; V11.

This Flapjack Octopus floated gently above the seafloor for several minutes as we watched it through the eyes of the ROV ROPOS. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/CSSF, V11.

Pillow basalts, interspersed with sediment ponds, mark old lava flows on the flanks of Axial Seamount. The rocks and sediment are host to occasional deep sea corals.

This Flapjack Octopus was imaged by the Canadian robotic vehicle ROPOS at a water depth of 5728 feet on Axial Seamount. Photo credit: OOI-NSF/UW/CSSF, V11

This Roughtail skate was photographed by the ROV ROPOS at 1756 m (5761 feet) beneath the ocean's surface on the flank of Axial Seamount. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1466; V11.

The high power and high bandwidth fiber optic cable laid up the slope of Axial Seamount. 

Oxygen titrations in the wet lab

The view from the logger's seat in the watch room

Photo by Allison Fundis (VISIONS11)

The dive route for the Slocum Glider at Axial Seamount. 

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The OOI Regional Scale Nodes cabled observatory is currently under construction.  Nodes with arrays of instruments will be placed at Axial Seamount and Hydrate Ridge.  Future node sites are also indicated.

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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) 

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The Rutger's Slocum glider deployed at Axial Seamount with the R/V Thompson in the background. (photo by Allison Fundis) 

Cody and Martha!!