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Jun 1, 2016

A Tenth Anniversary Inshore Maintenance Cruise

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship John P. Tully in Saanich Inlet.

The Canadian Coast Guard Ship John P. Tully in Saanich Inlet.

Ocean Networks Canada's tenth annual expedition season began on 28 April 2016 with an 8-day cruise to maintain the ocean observing instrumentation and platforms in Saanich Inlet and the Strait of Georgia. The Canadian Coast Guard Ship John P. Tully and the ITB Subsea Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Oceanic Explorer supported the recovery, repair and deployment of seafloor installations and...

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Fraser | fraser delta | ddl | delta dynamics lab | Gwyn Lintern | river delta | strait of georgia | salish sea | venus | SLIP | Seismic Liquefaction In Situ Penetrometer | slumps | slope failure | slope stability | hypoxia | saanich inlet | forensics | pigs | csi | sfu | simon fraser university | gail anderson | decomposition | experiment | oxygen

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Mar 7, 2014

Maintaining the VENUS Observatory: March 2014 Expedition

Twice a year, the Ocean Networks Canada engineering and science teams head out to sea to service and maintain our coastal observatory in the Salish Sea.

Just west of the dock at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, the Saanich Inlet array lies in 100 m of water. Operating since 2006, this fjord network was the first comprehensive cabled ocean observatory in the world. A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is deployed from the deck of the Canadian Coast Guard Ship, John P. Tully and lowered to the bottom, where it can access and service the instrument suites connected to the network.

Research here includes benthic ecology, plankton dynamics, and monitoring complex seasonal biogeochemical cycles. At each station, VENUS maintains a standard...

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salish sea | strait of georgia | venus | expedition | fraser delta | saanich inlet | Tully | maintenance | forensics

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May 10, 2013

Tully Leg 1 Summary: Apr-May 2013

Today marked the end of Leg 1 - servicing installations in the Salish Sea - wrapped up after a successful 10 days of operations. At 09:00 the newly arrived leg 2 crew stood in the sun on dock with the happy, but tired, leg 1 crew. We began loading our gear and instruments right away with the ship's crane and finished at 14:00. It took us until evening to rearrange it like a giant block puzzle and tie it all down. All those hours playing TETRIS finally paid off.

The CanPac ROV Team spent the day conducting maintenance on the Remotely Operated Vehicle and working through the various tooling required for leg 2.

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expedition | Tully | rov | oceanic explorer | venus | satellite | saanich inlet | strait of georgia | fraser delta | ddl | delta dynamics lab | surveys

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Apr 27, 2013

Fraser Delta: a Dynamic Environment

River deltas are known for their dynamic nature. Most of the rivers naturally carry silt that eventually enters the ocean and settles at the bottom, continuously changing the shape of the seabed. Seasonal events, such as freshets - when glaciers’ snowmelt enters the river stream - are the time when the seafloor at deltas can change rapidly causing events called “slope failures” or “subsea landslides”.  Fraser River delta is one such location where subsea landslides occur regularly, in particular during the spring freshet season (May-June). Natural Resources Canada leads several research programs studying seafloor processes and conducts regular surveys of the delta area. 

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Fraser | fraser delta | ddl | delta dynamics lab | Gwyn Lintern | river delta | strait of georgia | salish sea | venus | SLIP | Seismic Liquefaction In Situ Penetrometer | slumps | slppe failure | slope stability

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Delta Cable is Back for Repair

Delta cable recovered by VENUS engineering team using “Georgia Transporter”. Oct 5-6, 2012.

The orange reel holds over 5 km of extension cable on the deck of the  “Georgia Transporter” powered barge after a successful recovery. This  cable supplies power and a communication link from the East Node in the Strait of Georgia (175m) to an instrument platform near...

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Imagenex Scanning Sonar Image.

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