The Global Class research vessel, the R/V Roger Revelle, is operated by Srcripps Institution (SIO) of Oceanography. It will be utilized for the Cabled Array operations and maintainence cruise July - August, 2017. This image is from the SIO website.
The ROV Jason enters the water at the Cabled Array Offshore Oregon site, water depth 600 m. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.
Alex Andronikides (Queens College, New York) and Willem Weertman (UW Oceanography) watch the first launch of Jason on the UW-NSF-OOI VISIONS'17 cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.
Life thrives on the Shallow Profiler Mooring platforms at 200 m beneath the oceans' surface. This 12 ft across mooring platform is coated in dense communities of very large anemones, small pink sea urchins, feathery brown crinoids , and small crabs and shrimp...the closer you look the more you see. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/Jason.
Brittle Stars, crinoids and sea urchins recovered from the Shallow Profiler Mooring packages at the Oregon Offshore site. Credit: Hanis Zulaikha, University of Washington.
UW Oceanography student, Hanis Zulaikha, learns about the CTD from Julie Nelson, Grays Harbor College, prior to its first deployment on the VISIONS17 UW-NSF-OOI Cabled Array cruise. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington.
A close up view of the newly installed winched Shallow Profiler at the Oregon Offshore site. The platform is at 200 m water depth. The manipulator arm of the ROV Jason is about to pull a couple of pull pins to let the Science Pod be free. Credit: UW/OOI-NSF/WHOI.