#ROPOS is now listed as an asset on the Greenwater Foundation's Vessel Connect web app! Browse the information on ROPOS and potential host vessels here: tinyurl.com/ROPOSVesselC... #MarineLife #Science #Research #DeepSea #OceanExploration

Our team is in Anacortes, Washington, USA today to check out the ship for our next mission with Endurance Energy, Stabbert Maritime's Ocean Guardian. 📸: Luke Girard

Almost a year ago, we integrated a sub-bottom profiler onto #ROPOS for the first time, significantly improved our navigation setup and performed a safe recovery when ROPOS got stuck to the seafloor! Read how we did it here: tinyurl.com/KIOST2025PO

This week, we celebrated what it is to be #Canadian! 🇨🇦 We are incredibly proud to be a Canadian organisation and a world leader in precision subsea operations! CSSF respectfully acknowledges the indigenous peoples whose waters we operate. Photo Credit: Nicole Holman and the 2023 NEPDEP Partners

This time last year, we conducted the first Controlled-Source Electromagnetic Method (CSEM) survey ever done using an ROV. Check out the preliminary summary on our website! tinyurl.com/KIOST2025IO

Around 2 years ago, we troubleshot our hydraulics with limited resources onboard, allowing us to collect 130 crust samples. We also had an encounter with a Bigfin #Magnapinna squid! Check out the preliminary summary below: tinyurl.com/KIOST2024PO

One and a half years ago, our team navigated ROPOS through high currents to capture footage of dense coral forests in canyon areas straddling the Canada-US border. Read about it on our website! tinyurl.com/Bigelow2024

One and a half years ago, part of our team installed 3D printed corals atop a subsea wall, hung ornament-like data loggers onto corals living on vertical rock walls, and more — all using Amundsen Science's ASTRID ROV. Read about it on our website! tinyurl.com/Amundsen2024

Two years ago, we triumphed against flight delays due to severe flooding in Dubai and successfully collected 32 high-quality water- and air- tight samples, along with superb multibeam bathymetry for #UW, #NOAA & #KIOST. Read the preliminary summary here! tinyurl.com/KIOST2024IO

Almost 3 years ago, we successfully used our #KROCS system for the first time. This new setup allowed us to drill a higher number of shorter cores and enabled the science team to proceed with a multi-year drilling program! Read about it on our website! tinyurl.com/KIOST2023PO

Three years ago, we successfully tested our Korean Remotely Operated Coring System (#KROCS) for the very first time. This trial proved it to be a viable technology & allowed us to perform real work with it later that summer! Read about it on our website! tinyurl.com/KIOST2023IO

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!

🧪🦑 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! 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific

Our tentative schedule for 2025 is up! Check it out below or at tinyurl.com/mr2c5t5z

🧪🦑 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! 22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep

🧪🦑 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! 21/ 📸 #nepdep & @roposrov.bsky.social

🧪🦑 Here are some stills from the last 3 days in the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-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. 20/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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! /19 #nepdep

🧪🦑 It's Day 7, and we're on bottom at the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA! Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024 Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb 18/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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. 17/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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 16/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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! 15/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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 14/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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. 13/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 We're on bottom! 12/ #nepdep

🧪🦑 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. 11/ #nepdep

🧪 Today, we've been testing our systems and steaming to our first site, the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef Marine Protected Area! 10/ 📸 Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

🧪 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! 9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep

🧪 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! 8/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep