Follow along as participants in the cruise provide updates and reflections on their experiences, the science, the technology, and other elements of the expedition.
April 30, 2015 | By Chris Taylor
NOAA and the U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office began a partnership in 2014 to deploy ocean gliders in the Caribbean to study and record ocean conditions, ocean currents and biological sounds made by marine mammals and many species of reef fish.
Read moreApril 29, 2015 | By Kasey Cantwell
We see so many amazing things every day on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer that it is often difficult to pick which one image to use to summarize the day in the daily updates or what three or four images to use for mission logs.
Read moreApril 28, 2015 | By Mike Ford
During Océano Profundo, we saw a number of exciting gelatinous organisms. I’ve listed some of the most exciting ones here.
Read moreApril 27, 2015 | By Mike Cheadle
Diving on steep slopes means that commonly we see evidence of slope instability in the form of landslides and/or the bare rock faces, called headwall scarps, left behind after the landslide has occurred. We found spectacular examples of both these features during our dives.
Read moreApril 25, 2015 | By Adela Roa-Varón
Fishes of the order Gadiformes (e.g., cods, hakes, rattails and their allies) inhabit cool waters in every ocean of the world and are the targets of some of the most important commercial fisheries.
Read moreApril 23, 2015 | By Todd Gregory
Saludos desde el barco Okeanos Explorer, que en este momento está explorando los aguas abisales alrededor de Puerto Rico. Yo soy uno de los diseñadores y ingenieros de los vehículos submarinos que estan instalados en este barco.
Read moreApril 19, 2015 | By Dan Bolan
An expedition can generate about a dozen terabytes of information. And all of this data has to go through our system on the ship, formatting and organizing everything so that it can be used easily by scientists on shore, as they work with the shipboard scientists to plan and direct ROV dives.
Read moreApril 16, 2015 | By Jason Chaytor, Amanda Demopoulos, Uri Ten Brink, Andrea Quattrini
The Mona Passage region encompasses the area between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, from the Puerto Rico Trench to the Muertos Trough. It includes Mona Canyon, Mona Seamount/Block, and the Mona Passage.
Read moreApril 15, 2015 | By Graciela Garcia-Moliner
El trabajo que se llevó a cabo en el Pasaje de la Mona al oeste de Puerto Rico fue todo un éxito; también lo han sido las exploraciones a mayor profundidad.
Read moreApril 15, 2015 | By LT Laura Gallant
Read how the duties of a bridge officer span out across a typical day at sea.
Read moreApril 13, 2015 | By Kasey Cantwell
So far we have seen some pretty fantastic animals during Océano Profundo 2015. The deep ocean is full of weirdly fantastic fauna – organisms that often seem strange and foreign to us.
Read moreApril 10, 2015 | By Brian Kennedy
The first ideas for the Océano Profundo 2015 expedition trace their roots back to 2011, when the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, in partnership with the Institute for Exploration, hosted a workshop on Systematic Telepresence-Enabled Exploration in the Atlantic Basin.
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