Blogs
Northern Conduit drilling complete!
Friday, March 25, 2011
The L3-MariPro drill team completed drilling the 5,000 ft Northern Conduit yesterday (March 24th)! The next step will be to push the permanent co ...
Bubble test for the Southe ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The conditions have not been favorable (bad weather) for divers, the crew decided to climb aboard a Dory boat yesterday and launched off the beach ...
Northern Conduit drilling ...
Monday, March 21, 2011
As of last Saturday (3/19), 630 ft of temporary 12" casing has been installed in the northern conduit as part of the pilot hole. This casing ...
Drilling of the Northern C ...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
After successfully completing the southern conduit on March 14th, the drill rig was repositioned to work on the northern conduit the following da ...
Southern Conduit Completed ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
On Friday, March 11, the drilling rig broke through the seafloor, ahead of schedule, at the end of the 5,000-foot southern conduit. ...
Drilling resumes after tsu ...
Friday, March 11, 2011
Personnel conducting operations related to the OOI RSN horizontal directional drilling efforts were evacuated early Friday morning. ...
Update on Drilling
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) work continues at Pacific City, Oregon, in preparation for the OOI cable installation. ...
Horizontal Directional Dri ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) began on Monday, February 21, near the OOI RSN shore station in Pacific City, Oregon. ...
Drilling Prep Work
Monday, February 14, 2011
Preparatory work for one the early steps in the cable installation process--horizontal directional drilling--began on Monday, Feb. 7. ...
OMS Deployment
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The first of four annual planned releases of the Observatory Management System (OMS) for the Regional Scale Nodes was successfully deployed ...
Shore Station Preparatory ...
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Work in preparation for installation of the OOI-Regional Scale Nodes cable landing/shore station system was completed ...
As Enlighten '10 Ends
Sunday, August 22, 2010
After a month at sea, the Enlighten ’10 cruise is coming to an end and we are steaming back towards the Oregon coast. ...
Exploring an Active Calde ...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Jason Dive 517 ended at 0120h this morning after more than 30 hrs in the water. Drilling small holes... ...
Life in the Extreme
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Beginning tonight Jason will be conducting operations to look at life that thrives within the walls of active black smoker chimneys ...
Dive J2-516
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Jason dive J2-516 began at 1200h today with the deployment of... ...
Transforming the ROV Jason ...
Monday, August 16, 2010
At 0800 h this morning, we recovered Jason from dive J2-515. We accomplished a lot during the ~60 hour dive... ...
Weather: Sunday August 15, ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
SUN!! Calm seas - a Sea State 0 to1 today. That's 2 sunny days in a row and a strong potential... ...
International District to ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Much of yesterday was spent conducting detailed photomosaic imaging of the International District Hydrothermal Field. ...
A Day Full of Vents and Su ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Science Update The past 24 hours have been busy aboard the R/V Thompson and we have been fortunate to have the weather ...
Students at Sea
Friday, August 13, 2010
The reality of working at sea, especially in an area that is prone to bad weather, is that things don't always... ...
Captain's Weather Report
Thursday, August 12, 2010
As predicted, the wind has increased to 20-30 knots, and seas to 14 feet have developed. ...
Weathering a Bit of a Blow ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Today Jason was out of the water because of a bit of a blow with 20-25 knot winds, just at the working limit of safe operations for recovery ...
Details at ASHES
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A major goal of the Enlighten’10 mission at Axial Volcano is to produce accurate and detailed site surveys ...
First Jason Dive at Axial ...
Monday, August 09, 2010
We are about 10 hours into Jason dive J2-514 and have just had our first sighting of active hydrothermal vents! ...