
Saying Goodbye Once Again
Saying Goodbye Once Again As we hold station in the fog off Newport, Oregon the RCA scientists, engineers and VISIONS’26 students are

Saying Goodbye Once Again As we hold station in the fog off Newport, Oregon the RCA scientists, engineers and VISIONS’26 students are

We arrived in the caldera of Axial Seamount just after midnight on August 13, eager to enter the strange, sunken world at

The last few days aboard the R/V Roger Revelle have carried us from the shallow, current-swept shelf off Oregon out to the

Our first stop was also our shallowest: the Oregon Shelf site, at just 80 m water depth and about an hour from

The past week has been a whirlwind of activity in preparation for departure. Once again, it has been almost exactly one year

Each summer, an extraordinary scientific expedition heads into the Northeast Pacific to maintain one of the world’s most advanced underwater ocean observatories.

August 16th, 2026 Slowly but surely everyone on the ship is beginning to feel that we are nearing the end of the

August 15, 2026 It was finally the morning of our big dive day. I started in down in the laundry room, mostly

August 14-15, 2026 The Octopus Was on Time At nearly a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean, an octopus had better attendance than

August 16, 2026 Shortly after I headed back to my state room yesterday evening, we began an 18 hour transit back to