Everything is illuminated! The recently deployed OOI still camera captured the Jason ROV at International District hovering next to the Diva hydrothermal vent (background), with the RAS/PPS (a fluid and DNA sampler) frame and fluid intake cap at a vent ca
An upside-down "pond" on the bottom of the ocean! A flange on the side of this unnamed vent at the CASM site (northern Axial Caldera) traps buoyant, superheated hydrothermal fluid underneath the ledge, where it forms a shimmering pool before escaping upwa
These Short-beaked Common Dolphins stopped by to send us on our way from Axial Seamount back to Slope Base during Leg 3 of the OOI-RCA VISIONS’24 cruise. 50-100 of them came straight up to the ship and some were surfing on the bow wake. It was amazing!
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The Leg 3 VISIONS'24 students modeling the latest in survival suit fashion! Right after we left the dock this morning, we attended an excellent shipboard safety briefing from the crew of the R/V Atlantis. Now we're ready for the next two weeks of OOI work
