During the VISIONS'14 expedition, it is anticipated that ~150 instruments will be installed to complete construction of the OOI Regional Cabled Ocean Network. The instruments include those that measure physical, biological, chemical and geological parameters to understand myriad processes that operate in the ocean. These include earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, currents, impacts of ocean acidification and global warming, and hydrothermal flow with linkages to biological communities. The instruments listed below are scheduled for installation during VISIONS '14:
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
- Benthic Experiment Package
- Benthic Flow Meter
- Bottom Pressure and Tilt Meter
- CTD – Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
- Dissolved Oxygen Sensors
- Digital Still Camera
- Fluorescence Sensor
- Fluorometer (CDOM)
- High-Definition Video Camera
- Horizontal Electrometer Pressure Inverted Echosounder (HPIES)
- Hydrophone, Broadband
- Hydrophone, Low-Frequency
- Mass Spectrometer
- Nitrate Sensor
- Optical Attenuation Sensor
- Optical Backscatter Sensor
- Osmotic Sampler
- pH and Carbon Dioxide Sensors
- Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Sensor
- Pressure Sensor
- Remote Access Fluid and DNA Sampler
- Resistivity Probe
- Seafloor Instrument Array
- Seismometer, Broadband Ocean-Bottom
- Seismometer, Short-Period Ocean-Bottom
- Spectral Irradiance Sensor
- Thermistor Array
- Turbulent-Flow Current Meter (VEL3D)