Image Archive

The ROV Jason plugs in the low-power junction box 9500 ft beneath the oceans surface at the Slope Base site. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, V16.

Final preparations on the whiched, instrumented Science Pod before it is latched under the belly of the ROV Jason for installation on the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

A 12 pin electrical wet-mate connector on a junction box at the base of Axial Seamount awaits its mate during turning of the platforms and instruments at this site. The oil-filled mates, allow the ROV to disconnect and connect extension cables on platforms, junction boxes, and instruments without bringing the entire assembly to the surface. They are used heavily on our system to reduce operations and maintenance costs. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, DIve J907, V16.

The Titan manipulators on the ROV Jason conduct complex operations during installation of the Platform Interface Assembly hosting multiple instruments. The PIA is attached to the 200 m deep, 12 foot across platform on the two-legged Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, Dive J911,V16.

Krill surroung the small "cage" housing the cable connection from the Shallow Profiler at Axial Base to the extension cable connecting the Profiler to the power and communications. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, Dive J910, V16.

The new instrumented science pod, all bright and shiney, is installed on the Shallow Profiler Mooring at Axial Base. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI, V16.

The ROV Jason surveys the Shallow Profiler platform located ~ 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Eighteen instruments on the platform and profiling science pod have been sending data live to shore for a year, all connected to the Internet. Both science pods have now been replaced during the annual, planned maintenance of this system. Operation of this infrastructure takes place at the University of Washington Operations Center in the School of Oceanography. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI; V16.

The ROV Jason breaches the oceans surface latched into an instrumented Platform Interface Assembly that has been installed for a year on a Shallow Profiler Mooring at the base of Axial Seamount. Connected to the submarine cable, the instruments have been sending sending data live back to shore since summer 2015 from 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

The ROV Jason is latched into a recovered, instrumented Science Pod on a Shallow Profiler Mooring at the base of Axial Seamount. The winched profiler has made >2000 trips up and down through the water column. Connected to the submarine cable, the instruments have been sending sending data live back to shore since summer 2015 from 600 ft beneath the oceans' surface. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V16.

The ROV Jason enters the NE Pacific waters for the first time during the VISIONS'16 cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington; V16.

Junction Box LJ03A being moved into position at the start of Jason Dive 907. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington; V16.

The fantail of the R/V Sikuliaq has little room to walk subsequent to loading all the equipment to be installed during VISIONS'16. Credit: S. Denny, University of Washington; V16.