Image Archive

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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A repeater is prepared for launch from the TE SubCom Dependable.   --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable

The Linear Cable Engine (LCE) ready to begin deploying the OOI cable.The LCE Machine is used to bear the weight of and pay out the cable. --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.

On 5 July we were in the right place and time to encounter a group of approximately 300, or more Pacific white-sided dolphins. These dolphins remained somersaulting, leaping, porpoising and surfing around the ship for more than 1.5 hours. --Photo by Suzanne Yin, marine mammal observer onboard the TE SubCom Dependable. Credit: Regional Cabled Array, University of Washington, 2011.

On 5 July 2011, marine mammal observers onboard the TE SubCom Dependable  were treated to a close encounter with a Sei whale, the third largest baleen whale. Credit: Desray Reeb, marine mammal observer onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.

Grapnel coming up after a run. Once back on deck of the TE SubCom Dependable it was inspected and nothing was found entangled. The seabed surveyed is clear. --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable

Sunset on the 4th of July from the deck of the TE SubCom Dependable. --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable

The grapnel is ready for deployment onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.   --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable

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Cable tank showing unarmored OOI cable (white) ready to go. --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.

The OOI cable (white) is shown running through the cable highway, or trough, at the aft end of the TE SubCom Dependable. The seaplow that will be used to bury the cable sits to the right.   --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard TE SubCom Dependable

The OOI cable (white) shown running through the Linear Cable Engine onboard the TE SubCom Dependable. --Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable

Repeaters being kept cool onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.

Seaplow sitting on the back deck of the TE SubCom Dependable. The seaplow is deployed from the ship and used to bury the cable in the seafloor. All portions of the cable from the shore to a distance of about 1 km (.6 mile) seaward of the 700-fathom (4200-feet) Essential Fish Habitat boundary (EFH) will be buried. -- Photo by Cecile Durand, University of Washington, onboard the TE SubCom Dependable.

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