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Mar 5, 2014

First Expedition of 2014 bound for Salish Sea

SIDNEY, BC - Ocean Networks Canada’s first major expedition of the year launched today as the CCGS John P. Tully pulled away from the dock for an intense week of key maintenance operations on VENUS ocean observatory locations in the Salish Sea.

The Ocean Networks Canada engineering team will be at sea from March 5 to 11, conducting maintenance on instrument systems at the Saanich Inlet and Strait of Georgia seafloor arrays. Joining them are the Canpac Divers/ITB Subsea team with their Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Oceanic Explorer, Natural Resources Canada's Gwyn Lintern and a number of scientists visiting the ship to handle scientific samples.

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expedition | CCGS John P. Tully | installation | ONCAbyss | Wiring the Abyss 2014

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Jun 26, 2013

Thompson Expedition Summary: June 2013

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We are back in the office after nearly 3 weeks at sea aboard the University of Washington’s R/V Thompson. The team followed the Operations Plan that was set out over the last 6 months and achieved most of the planned goals. The weather co-operated perfectly for dive operations, resulting in no weather downtime. The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) crew ensured that there was as little vehicle downtime as possible and was quick to resolve any problems subsea and on deck.

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thompson | expedition | operations | rov | oceaneering | millennium | dives | summary | endeavour | mothra | cables | installation | endeavour north | clayoquot slope | cascadia basin | main endeavour field

Feb 13, 2013

Strait of Georgia Array is Coming Back Online

Deep water node deployment - Feb 2013.

Responding to a failure of an array power connector on the Strait of Georgia array of VENUS in early fall 2012, a joint team of engineers from Ocean Networks Canada and...

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strait of georgia | installation | Wave Venture

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Folger Pinnacle Re-installed

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folger passage | folger pinnacle | NEPTUNE | maintenance | installation | Pelagic | Bamfield | Ocean Dynmics Canada | grasshopper

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Jul 5, 2012

Wiring the Abyss: Part 2

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On June 26, we completed our summer expedition, Wiring the Abyss 2012 aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson (University of Washington). Despite the inevitable challenges we encounter when deploying deep sea instruments, overall the cruise was a success.

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maintenance | R/V Thomas G Thompson | Tully | Wiring the Abyss 2012 | endeavour | barkley canyon | folger passage | cascadia basin | installation | ROPOS

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Mar 20, 2012

DISCo on the Seafloor—New Camera Hard at Work

DiSCo, VENUS' new camera on the seafloor, to be deployed in Vancouver Island's Saanich Inlet.

For more than 6 years VENUS has been deploying and operating various camera systems on its network collecting imagery from Saanich Inlet and Strait of Georgia. Growing interest from the research community that rely on visual data from the deep ocean to conduct their experiments have led VENUS to expand the selection of...

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saanich inlet | DISCO | Seal | camera | venus | installation

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Oct 5, 2011

September 2011 Expedition Complete

Our fall 2011 installation and maintenance expedition sailed September 10 – 30 aboard the R/V Thompson. It was a very active time for 7 Ocean Networks Canada staffers, 4 contractors, 1 Pacific Geosciences Centre technician, 1 volunteer, an 8-man ROPOS crew, 2 marine techs and the 21 crew members of the R/V Thompson. During our 20 days at sea, we completed 13 ROPOS dives at three locations, including a trip into Bamfield for parts.

Our itinerary during the September 2011 cruise.

During our adventures, we deployed 32 new instruments, including those attached to a Regional Circulation Mooring, retrieved-refurbished-...

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R/V Thomas G. Thompson | expedition | endeavour | barkley canyon | installation | cascadia basin | ROPOS | wally | regional circulation mooring | tempo-mini | BPR

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Aug 22, 2011

Folger Pinnacle Frontiers

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The Folger Pinnacle instrument platform was installed on August 23, 2010 and connected on February 2, 2011 by a combined team of Pelagic Technologies divers, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC), and Ocean Networks Canada. Since then, a wealth of data has been gathered by instruments affixed to this 23m deep platform. However, in recent months, Dilumie Abeysirigunawardena, one of our data specialists, noticed a drop in the instruments’ data quality and sensitivity. Some stopped working altogether, while signals from others have gradually diminished. (See, for example, the drop-off in irradiance from our light sensor below – you’d normally expect June to be brighter than February!)

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folger passage | folger pinnacle | Repair | scuba | camera | video camera | adcp | biofouling | Folger Deep | installation | Pelagic | divers | Fish | barnacles | zinc oxide

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Jul 29, 2011

July 2011 Expedition Comes to an End!

From July 4 - 25, 2011, Ocean Networks Canada navigated an impressive installation and maintenance expedition in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Diving down to the seafloor to investigate our 800-km cabled network observatory along the northern Juan de Fuca plate, we tended to our technically-advanced instruments and witnessed some of the amazing marine life dwelling off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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R/V Thomas G. Thompson | expedition | maintenance | installation | barkley canyon | endeavour | clayoquot slope | cascadia basin | fogler passage | ROPOS | Piezometer | BPR | adcp | CTD | cork | BARS | COVIS | VPS

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May 5, 2011

VPS Returns to Sea

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POGO | VPS | installation | OTTB | saanich inlet | vertical profiling system

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