Last week, @cmos-scmo.bsky.social members, the ROPOS Team & our Board of Directors gathered together to honour the ROPOS Team's achievements!
We are honoured to receive the JP Tully Medal, which recognizes those whose scientific contributions have had a significant impact on Canadian oceanography!
Two weeks ago, we successfully completed our mission to support KIOST in the Pacific Ocean!
#KIOST 2/2
π’ We are about to begin a 3.5-week expedition on the R/V Isabu to support the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology in the Pacific Ocean!
#KIOST 1/1
Around this time last week, we successfully completed our mission in the Indian Ocean to support #KIOST!
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π’ We've just begun our first expedition of 2025!
From May 3 - June 13, we'll be in the Indian Ocean aboard the R/V Isabu supporting the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology!
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π§ͺπ¦ Last summer, we captured incredible selfie footage of @roposrov.bsky.social, took ground-breaking temperature measurements with an extra long probe & spotted a rare squid with eggs with the NEPDEP 2024 team.
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
#nepdep #DeepSea #MarineTechnology
Season's Greetings from Doug, the Keiths, Will, Peter, Barry, Luke, Robin, Ray and Laurie at the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility @roposrov.bsky.social!
πΈ Toby Hall, DFO Pacific
We have successfully completed our final mission of 2024!
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We have just begun our final expedition of 2024!
For the next month (Nov 8 - Dec 4) we'll be supporting the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology in the Pacific Ocean aboard the R/V Isabu! π’
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Our tentative schedule for 2025 is up!
Check it out below or at tinyurl.com/mr2c5t5z
π¦π§ͺ We are delighted to find that we and @roposrov.bsky.social were mentioned in the @deepstewardship.bsky.social and @dsbsoc.bsky.social's Deep-Sea Life newsletter this month!
π§ͺπ¦ Watch the wrap-up video here!
www.nepdep.com/2024expedition
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π§ͺπ¦ It was a great pleasure to support the NEPDEP 2024 expedition and to work with the NEPDEP Science Team for another year!
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
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π§ͺπ¦ Some highlights and rare sights from our 2nd week of dives!
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
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π§ͺπ¦ Here are some stills from the last 3 days in the SGΜ²Γ‘an KΜ²Γnghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA from ~800-300 m depth!
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
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π§ͺπ¦ On the way up from the skate nursery on Day 5, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team sprung to action when they spotted and managed to catch video of a Gonatus squid brooding its eggs!
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
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π§ͺπ¦ It's Day 7, and we're on bottom at the SGΜ²Γ‘an KΜ²Γnghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA!
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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π§ͺπ¦ Here are some stills from today in at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network from ~600-300 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
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π§ͺπ¦ It's Day 6, and we're on bottom at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network!
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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π§ͺπ¦ Here are some stills from today, at the NEPDEP 58 Seamount skate nursery at ~1600 m depth!
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
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π§ͺπ¦ Today is Day 5, and we're on bottom at the NEPDEP 58 skate nursery!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
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π§ͺπ¦ Here are some stills from 2 of our first 4 dive days, in the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge MPA at ~200 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
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It's a sediment sample collected with a push core!
π§ͺπ¦ We're on bottom!
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π§ͺπ¦ It's Day 1 and we are now live! Today, we're exploring the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef MPA!
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
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π§ͺ Today, we've been testing our systems and steaming to our first site, the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef Marine Protected Area!
10/ πΈ Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
π§ͺ It has auto- focus & tracking, which means that we can tell it to find an eye on a fish & it will track the eye & continue to capture sharp imagery of it if the fish swims away.
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
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π§ͺ Within this rectangular housing is our new camera, the Nikon Z9.
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
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π§ͺ β¦bring the LARS to life!
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The mechanism that makes the LARS (Launch & Recovery System) function consists of the HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), the level wind and the cable drum.
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
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