Image Archive

The Jason control van during VISIONS'20 showing various views while working at Diva. Credit: University of Washington.

A bulb of basalt on top of a drooping pillow basalt shows classicbread crust texture on its top. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF, Ropos Dive R2246. V22.

A new blow out cavern at Einstein's Grotto is bounded by think yellow microbial mats and thinner white mats. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R2224; V22.

A small anydrite-rich chimney grows at the base of Castle in the International District Hydrothermal Field. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF; ROPOS Dive R2246; V23.

O2 level of the ship looking at the shipping crates strapped to two grey beams and behind them the bridge of the ship. Credit. M. Borden, Carleton College, V23.

Jason control van, filled with monitors showing a variety of camera shots and information about the ROV. Credit: M. Borden, Carleton College, V23.

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The sun sets on the Pacific as viewed through a portal on the R/V Thompson. Credit: J. Boden, V23.

Members of the VISIONS'23 program gaze across the Pacific upon leafing Newport, OR. Credit: J. Boden, V23.

Squat lobsters hide in the forest of feather seastars on the Oregon Offshore mooring platform at 200m. Translucent, scallop shaped mollusks are abundant, as are the seastars. Small red-plumed worms, feather dusters, also call this home. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514, V23.

Jason emerges from a dive at the Oregon Offshore Site. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V23.

The Offshore Mooring is a beautiful island hosting pink sea urchins, light orange anemones, white glass sponges (right), 5-legged brittle stars, feather seastars, amazing nudibranchs and corals (far left), corabranching hydroids with pink nudibranch egg clusters, and a swarm of krill. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1517; V23.

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An end shot of the Platform Interface Assembly installed in 2022 and platform home to large feather stars and a few small fish. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; V23.

A large sponge hides a squat lobster on the Shallow Profiler platform at Oregon Offshore. It also is home to feather stars, anemones, and nudibranchs (far right. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1515, V23.

The Shallow Profiler mooring platform at the Oregon Offshore site is now an island for animals to colonize since 2017. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514, V23.

A good image of the Platform Interface Assembly with the two stands up holding the pH and CTD-O2 instrument (left) and CO2 sensor (right). Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1514, V23.

A view of the Jason ROV control van. Credit: J. Sandke, Queens College, V23.

Feather Stars Cover the Shallow Profiler Platform at Oregon Offshore. Credit: J. Sandke, Queens College, V23.

Jason being recovered from a dive during Leg 1. Credit: J. Sandke, Queens College, V23.

A large feather star is home to a cluster of pink nudibranch eggs on the Oregon Offshore Shallow Profiler platform (200 m water depth). Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1516; V23.

A colony of anemones grow on the Shallow Profiler mooring (200 m water depth) at the Oregon Offshore site bounded by a feather star. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI; J2-1516, V23.