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Chris Williams, undergraduate student at UW, dons his survival 'gumby' suit during the day 1 safety briefing for new Leg 3 personnel. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V19

Chris Williams' map of the day for VISIONS 19 blog.

Chris Williams, an undergraduate student at UW, helps to clean off a bioacoustic sonar package that was heavily biofouled with anemones and barnacles. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V19

Jacob Clairmont (center) listening intently to the Jason ROV walkthrough for new Leg 3 personnel. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V19

Eve Hudson dons her survival suit as part of the Leg 3, Day 1 safety briefing on R/V Atlantis. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V19

Katie Gonzalez helping to train the new Leg 3 personnel on the use of the logging stations in the Jason control van. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V19

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The power cable to the Oregon Shelf (80m) bioacoustic sonar was so covered with anemones it was difficult to find and detach! Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

As with the junction box at Oregon Shelf (80 m), the bioacoustic sonar platform is covered with anemones and fish. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19.

Oregon Shelf hydrophone recovery. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Lingcod resting on, around, and under the Oregon Shelf hydrophone tripod, which is also covered in barnacles and anemones. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Anemones on the Oregon Shelf BEP power cable. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The Oregon Shelf hydrophone (underwater microphone) apparently became a popular gathering place for fish (lingcod) during the past year. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A wolf eel swimming alongside the undervator as Jason prepares to recover the Oregon Shelf digital still camera (covered in biofouling). Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Severe biofouling of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Tunicates (aka sea squirts) covering the lamp of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Tunicates are chordates that start life as a swimming, fish-like animal and then settle on a surface and become sessile (attached) organisms that filter food out of the water flowing by. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A close-up of the barnacles, anemones, and tunicates covering every exposed surface of the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Different shapes and sizes of anemones covering the upper surface of the Oregon Shelf junction box. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Close-up video of the Metridium anemones covering the upper surface of Oregon Shelf junction box. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

The Jason pilots carefully use a manipulator to cover the open socket of the Oregon Shelf junction box with a protective 'dummy plug' after disconnecting the digital still camera. Anemones cover most of the rest of the surface of the platform. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A possessive shrimp colonized the junction box plug that we needed to disconnect to recover the Oregon Shelf digital still camera. The Jason ROV won the battle. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

Anemones flourish on the hard surfaces of the Oregon Shelf junction box, luckily leaving a gap wide enough for the orange handle of the power plug needed to disconnect the digital still camera. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

There are so many anemones covering the Oregon Shelf (80m) junction box that it can be hard to see the frame. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19

A rear view of the anemones, barnacles, and tunicates covering the Oregon Shelf digital camera after a one year deployment. A lingcod fish is hanging out beneath the tripod, and a large number of ctenophores (comb jellies) were also seen at the site. Photo Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, V19