Beyond the Blue: 2025 ROV and Mapping Shakedown
March 17-27, 2025
From March 17-27, 2025, NOAA Ocean Exploration and partners will conduct a telepresence-enabled expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in deep waters off Hawai‘i. During the Beyond the Blue: 2025 ROV and Mapping Shakedown expedition, the team will assess the readiness of remotely operated vehicles (ROV) Deep Discoverer and Seirios along with the ship’s mapping, telepresence, and other systems needed to conduct scientific activities. This “shakedown” ensures that these systems are ready to go for the remainder of the year and provides an opportunity to train staff while ensuring that collected data is of the highest quality.
Use of the livestreams is an important component of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer’s mission. Depending on the exploration and operations at hand, content and availability of the video feeds will change. All video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration.
All views and opinions expressed in this video feed are those of the speaker and are not attributable to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or other federal agency.
What Are You Seeing?
When the Okeanos Explorer is underway on an expedition, this page will broadcast streams from the ship. What is being shown on the different video streams may change depending on the exploration and operations at hand.
Note that occassionally on the feeds, you will see two red dots – these laser points are 10 centimeters (almost four inches) apart and are used by scientists to determine the sizes of things that they are seeing.
Live Track/Current Position Map
Map data courtesy of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
Note regarding audio:
Audio is only available during dives, when the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are in the water. Audio from ship-to-shore science conversations is available on Camera 1. Audio from the ROV pilots is available through Camera 2. Audio from both science participants and ROV pilots is available on Camera 3; to hear more or less of one of the conversations on Camera 3, adjust the audio settings on your computer to shift the balance right or left, for more science and less pilots or vice versa.