Image Archive

 Skip Denney provided the students of Leg 5 a tour of the fantail which included a detailed explanation of all of the parts to the vertical moorings and a descriptrion of the equipment utilized in the deployment of it. Photo Credit: Colin Katagiri, University of Washington, V14

During dive R1674, the instrumented shallow winched profiler system was installed onto the platform at 197 m water depth on the tw-legged mooring. This marks a first of the OOI program. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1764; V14.  

The Platform Instrument Assembly (PIA) is hoisted off the deck of the R/V Thompson in preparation for the successful installation at the Oregon Offshore Site. It was installed in the early morning hours of August 30th. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1763; V14.  

Dive R1762 at the EA Oregon Offshore Site installed and connected a 120 m 'oily' cable between junction box LV01C and the base of the EOM cable for the two-legged shallow profiler mooring. Video credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1762; V14.  

Orest Kawka (RSN School of Oceanography Project Scientist) and Trina Litchendorf (RSN APL Engineer) work on the EA Oregon Offshore Shallow Winched Profiler, and Instrument Platform on the fantail of the R/V Thompson. Photo Credit: Mitch Elend, University of Washington; V14.

During the port call for Leg 4 in Newport, Oregon, the UW-APL-built Shallow Winched Profiler was loaded onto the R/V Thompson. The system has an underwater level wind that "spools" out yellow cable, which will provide power and communications to an attached instrument "pod" (orange bulbous-shaped package bottom left). The profiler will be located at a water depth of ~197 m on the already installed mooring at the EA Offshore Site. Several times a day the instrument pod will rise from the 197-m-deep platform to just beneath the ocean's surface making critical chemical and biological measurements. Photo Credit: Skip Denny, APL-UW; V14.

The two-legged Shallow Profiler Mooring was installed on ROPOS Dive R1753 at the Oregon Offshore Site (600 m). The instrumented winched shallow profiler and platform instrument systems will be installed on Leg 4. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1753; V14.