Peck, a videographer on the Visions'11 cruise working in the small boat off the Thompson during the cruise.

A viewer's husband sent us this picture and email: "Lost my wife to VISIONS'11 and I have the picture to prove it. She's been on this site for days, basically since you started. What a geek :)"  

The flock of Shallow Profiler instrumented platforms loaded and on their way to Newport for VISIONS19. Credit: L. Nielson, University of Washington.

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Benthic Experiment Package (BEP) technical drawing, from Oregon State University.

The remotely operated vehicle ROPOS dives into the darkness during the VISIONS'11 expedition.

The R/V Thompson ~ 300 miles offshore as it works above Axial Volcano during the Visions'11 cruise.

The science party for VISIONS'11 Leg 2 as the R/V Thompson pulls into Victoria, Canada. 

Sunset views from the Thompson. It is time to go home.

Sulfide blocks the size of small cars at the base of the > 40 m tall sulfide edifice provide hints of active hydrothermal sites above.

Members of the Caris team in Alexandra, Va toast to VISIONS'11: "TO you as you used our newly installed HIPS software for data evaluation over Axial."   

Several meter tall active chimneys sprout along a a ridge of sulfide near the summit of the ~40 m tall suflide edifice discovered during the VISIONS 2011 program. The field was named the Dymond Field after Jack Dymond from Oregon State University. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1474; V11.

Never too young to love the VISIONS'11 live stream from Axial Seamount. 

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Skeleton of Asteromphalus heptactis

Plankton above Axial Seamount

Ceratium lineatum found above Axial Seamount

A close up view fo the edge of a snowblower vent billowing microbes and microbial produced material from the subseafloor. The biologically produced material and filamentous colonies of single-celled organisms coat the side and walls of a small collapse pit. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R1472; V11.