Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) underwater cameras allow us to make visual observations in ocean environments that are difficult to access or study on a regular basis.

Depending on the needs of researchers, these cameras can be used for a variety of scientific purposes, including observing previously unseen behaviour by fish and invertebrates, long-term monitoring of biodiversity levels under ocean changing conditions, and following the colonization and ecological succession at experiments placed in the deep sea. ONC’s cameras are constantly monitoring deep-sea hydrothermal vents and a submarine canyon in the northeast Pacific Ocean and coastal environments off British Columbia (Saanich Inlet, Strait of Georgia, Discovery Passage, Chatham Sound and Douglas Channel) and in the...