Crated equipment awaiting installation at the OOI shore station in Pacific City. --Photo by Chris Hoyt, University of Washinton OOI Field Operations Manager

The OOI cable for the regional component is being laid in segments, as shown on this graphic.

A visitor at the OOI Open House on July 13, 2011 at the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City, Oregon, leans in for a closer look at the submarine cable display provided by TE SubCom. --Photo by Mitchell Elend, OOI Science Technician,University of Washington

The Coastal, Regional, and Global components of the OOI. 

Shahpour Ashaari, OOI Operations and Maintenance Manager

Jake Maltby, APL-UW

Lisa Graumlich Dean, UW College of the Environment

With OOI cable loaded through the plow, the plow is launched off the stern of the Dependable. --Photo by Cecile Durand, OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington

The Dependable holding station near Haystack Rock a few hundred feet seaward of the end of the conduit from shore. --Photo by Cecile Durand, OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington

This view from the ship toward shore shows the cable landing site, diver support vessel, and guard boat during the first cable landing operations.   --Photo by Cecile Durand, OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington

This images shows the land cable end of the first cable landed, sitting on the deck of the TE SubCom Dependable, wrapped with a "Chinese finger" in preparation for pullng through the conduit and landing. ----Photo by Cecile Durand, OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington

Divers on day of first cable landing. --Photo by Cecile Durand, OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager, University of Washington

Some 200 people attended the talk given by Dr. John Delaney at the OOI Open House on July 13, 2011. --Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington

John Reardon, L3-MariPro (facing camera), Pete Barletto, OOI University of Washington (holding bottle), David Blau, TE SubCom (back to camera)  "christening" the shore end of the OOI undersea cable that was landed on July 12, 2011. --Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington

TE SubCom Dependable off Pacific City, Oregon --Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington

The OOI cable landing work site as it looks the day after the second cable landing. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

A surfer takes a break and checks out the OOI Dory Days booth along with other visitors. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

UW graduate student Alden Denny explains the planned cabled network experiments at Axial Seamount to visitors to the OOI booth at the Pacific City Dory Days Festival. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

Work site at beach manhole in Pacific City for second cable landing, July 15, 2011. Note first cable, landed July 12, 2011, is shown encased in split pipe.

The swivel shown here connects the winch wire to the undersea cable pulled through the conduit. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

Mom and baby wandered by to take a look at operations during the landing of the second OOI cable. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

TE SubCom Dependable from shore in Pacific City on the day of the second cable landing, July 15, 2011. --Photo courtesy of David Muerdter

The TE SubCom Dependable sat about one mile offshore during the cable landing operations. Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI RSN Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington.

Pete Barletto and Michael Mulvihill of the University of Washington in front of the cable landing work site at the beach manhole in Pacific City, Oregon ---Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI RSN Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington.

John Delaney, Director of the OOI regional cabled network, stands by the beach manhole where the OOI cable was landed on July 12, 2011. --Photo by Allison Fundis, OOI RSN Education and Public Engagement Liaison, University of Washington.

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Plow winches