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The wand of the temperature-pH-H2S instrument is inserted into the throat of the Diva vent. In the foreground, titanium water bottles used for sampling the high temperature vent fluids are secured on the front of Jason. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V2

An instrumented Deep Profiler is installed at Axial Base - over a 17 month period instrumented vehicles transited over 8 million ft of ocean water. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V20.

The newly installed HD camera lights up a small, actively venting hot spring chimney at the base of Mushroom. A small rubble pile at the base of the spigot is testament to the collapse and regrowth of this~ 1 m-tall chimney. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI V20.

During testing of the cabled high definition camera, which streams live imagery to shore every three hours, the camera lights up Jason at working at nearly a mile beneath the oceans surface on this active volcano. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF. V20.

An encrusted broadband hydrophone is being turned at the Oregon Shelf site after being on the seafloor for a year. Credit. UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI V19.

The low power junction box (LJ01D), which provides power, bandwidth, and communications to RCA instrumentation at the Oregon Shelf site (80 m), is now home to a vibrant community of sea anemones. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI. V19.

The Benthic Experiment Platform visited by the ROV Jason in 2019 during the VISIONS'19 maintenance expedition. Credit. UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI. V19.

This map shows the Eastern Caldera site and infrastructure as installed in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

This map shows cabled infrastructure as installed at the Central Caldera site in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Location of infrastructure at the Oregon Offshore site prior to the VISIONS'20 expedition. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V20.

This map shows the locations of instrumentation as installed in 2019.

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This map shows the Regional Cabled Array infrastructure as installed in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

This map shows the locations of infrastructure at the Axial Base site as installed in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

This map shows the location of instrumentation as installed in 2019. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.

Final testing of the instrumented shallow profiler components are completed at the RCA logistics prior to mobilization on the R/ V Thompson. Credit: D. Manalang, University of Washington. V20.

An army of instrumented stationary platforms (right) and winched shallow profilers (left) stand guard at Newport, awaiting final integration testing. Credit: D. Manalang, University of Washington. V20

The R/V Thompson exiting the Yaquinna Bay channel. Credit: R. Scott, University of Washington.

The R/V Thompson begins its 30-day voyage into the NE Pacific to conduct work on the Regional Cabled Array. Credit: R. Scott University of Washington. V20.

Multiple cranes are operational during the intense 1-day mobilization for Leg 1 of the 2020 RCA annual maintenance cruise. Credit: R. Scott, University of Washington, V20

RCA-APL Logistics Operations lead, L. Nielson carefully moves and winched Shallow Profiler platform at the Newport NOAA Facility. Credit: R. Scott, University of Washington. V20

The Thompson steams to the Oregon Offshore site on Leg 1 with a fully loaded deck. Credit. M. Elend, University of Washington. V20.

The fantail is filled with shallow profiler platforms marked by orange syntactic foam, and secondary junction boxes. Credit. M. Elend, University of Washington. V20.

One of the best things of being at sea is seeing the remarkable sunsets. Credit: K. Gonzalez, University of Washington, V20.

Under calm seas, Jason is latched into an winched shallow profiler platform onboard the R/V Thompson. Credit: K. Gonzalez, University of Washington