Blogs
At-Sea Installation Phases
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Installation of the OOI cabled at-sea network will take place in phases. ...
Installing the Land Cable
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Chris Hoyt, University of Washington OOI Field Operations Manager reports on the land cable installation activities at the OOI Shore Station ...
TE SubCom Dependable Propu ...
Monday, July 18, 2011
One of the fascinating features of this ship is its unconventional propulsion system. This system is comprised of two stern thrusters that rotate ...
Divers at Work
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Divers are working nearshore with a jet pump to bury the shore-end of the northern segment ...
The Day After
Saturday, July 16, 2011
It's the day after the second OOI cable landing and the work site behind the dune at the beach manhole in Pacific City looks like nothing eve ...
Second OOI Cable Landed
Friday, July 15, 2011
The second OOI cable was landed today at Pacific City at 9:13 am PST. The cable landed today is for the northern segment that will run 310 miles ...
Second Cable Landing Resch ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The landing of the second OOI cable at Pacific City, Oregon, has been rescheduled. Operations are expected to start early on Friday, July 15 ...
OOI Open House in Pacific ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
From noon to 3 pm on Wednesday, July 13, the OOI hosted an Open House at the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City, Oregon. ...
Preparing for the Cable La ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Things are shaping up on board in preparation for the cable landings in Pacific City, now scheduled for July 12 and July 14. ...
Seaplow 101
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Today's photos focus on Plow 101 - The plow is 14.5 tons and capable of operating in water depths up to 1500m and 1.5m burial. ...
Marine Mammal Observations ...
Saturday, July 09, 2011
We find ourselves on board the TE SubCom Dependable as part of a National Marine Fisheries Service condition... ...
Communicating with a Fishi ...
Thursday, July 07, 2011
We still have Force 5/6 conditions with white caps, but the vessel hardly rocks or rolls. ...
Cable Deployment Update
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
235 Km of the OOI cable have been deployed; 625 km remains to be deployed. The TE SubCom Dependable is currently sailing thro ...
Off Pacific City, Oregon
Sunday, July 03, 2011
We finished our transit this morning around 0800h and started gearing up for the prelay grapnel run just off Haystack ...
Finished with First Segmen ...
Friday, July 01, 2011
By noon we are done with the installation of our first segment!! The water depth is around 2,650m. ...
Deploying Repeaters
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Still laying Segment 6 towards the west. The routine (for some) is interrupted by the passage of 2 repeaters through the system. These enormous a ...
Start of First Cable Segme ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
After 11 hours of transit, we are now at the location of the RSN Midplate node, at the start of our first cable segment (Segmen ...
Leaving Astoria
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
1800h: We are leaving Astoria, right on time. The weather is great - well, of course it is grey and sort of raining but this is Oregon, right? Th ...
Meeting the Cable Ship in ...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Cecile Durand, the OOI Regional Scale Nodes Marine Maintenance Manager at the University of Washington, reports from Astoria, Oregon: ...
Cable Laying Vessel Underw ...
Friday, June 03, 2011
A commercial cable-laying ship, the TE SubCom C.S. Dependable, set sail on June 3 from Newington, New Hampshire, loaded with the OOI cable ...
Photos of OOI Cable Loadin ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Cable loading operations for the 900 kilometers (~560 miles) of OOI backbone cable took place in late May and early June 2011 from the TE Sub Com ...
Northern conduit installed ...
Monday, March 28, 2011
Over the weekend, the L3-MariPro crew in Pacific City completed the installation of the Northern Conduit 12" pipe. ...