InteractiveOceans

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historical and modern video of hydrothermal vents and red tube worms
Purple sea star with many arms
Video showing the seafloor and then sea surface at sunset
Cylindrical instrument housings and orange transducer heads attached to a blue gantry crane on a boat in a lake
pink soft coral with branching polyps with eight fringed tentacles growing on a dark lava rock
Dolphins swimming near the surface and jumping out of the water while the sun sets
Fish with big eyes and eel-like tails swimming in the deep sea near the seafloor
Child sitting and looking at a screen showing livestreamed underwater ROV imagery
video of red and white tube worms and other creatures around shimmering water emitted from black volcanic rock chimneys on the seafloor
Two crabs fighting on a rock near a pink coral
Oplalescent nudibranchs with bright orange colors. In first clip, one hangs from some underwater vegetation, the next crawla across the titanium surface of an instrument.
Orange minivan-sized platform with a smaller lozenge-shaped pod going up and down in the water on a yellow wire
Four people leaning on a ship's rail in Newport Harbor
Flat purple jellyfish with swirling tentacles
white snail crawling on mud
A blue and black ink sketch of octopuses and a fish next to a colorful painting of two birds
Woman holding rock with yellow snail egg cases attached to it
2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting logo
A deep-sea Graneledone octopus with arms spread out sitting on a basalt rock at Axial Seamount
A swarm of purple, leathery, eel-like hagfish surround a larger silvery fish carcass on the greenish mud and yellowish carbonate rocks of the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge, tearing off bits of flesh as they lift the carcass up off the seafloor.
The top of a hydrothermal vent: black basalt rock with smaller, vertically projecting chimneys covered in white, filamentous bacteria, yellowish limpets, tube worms, and blue protist colonies. Black clouds of superheated water that look like smoke billow out of the top. In the center, a long thin metal rod is sticking out of one of the chimneys, lying along the top of the vent with a small white float attached. Rod and float are covered in biofouling organisms.
An upside-down jellyfish with a clear bell and orange central body and many thin tentacles strewn around it. Several small fish are swimming around within the orange digestive surfaces.
Three people opening and prepping a numbered series of large, gray bottles for holding water on the side deck of a ship.
Two purple skates (one facing left, the other in the background and partially buried, facing right) lying on the greenish-brown mud of the seafloor at Southern Hydrate Ridge. Small carbonate rocks are scattered around, along with a crab, an anemone, a red rockfish, and other animals.
A group of four UW students in purple gloves sitting on the floor in the ship's dry lab. They surround a triangular frame that they are assembling into a flow sampling instrument using a set of cylindrical coils of tubing and tools that are sitting on the floor next to it.
A highlight reel video of selected scenes from the August 2025 OOI Regional Cabled Array maintenance cruise aboard the R/V Atlantis.
A black spiral of volcanic basalt rock on the seafloor in the caldera of an underwater volcano. It is sprinkled with some greenish-brown mud and surrounded by white tube worms and mussel shells.
Two UW students in the ship's laboratory wearing purple gloves adjust a triangular frame containing cylinders of coiled tubing that make up a diffuse fluid sampler.
Two crabs, one on top of the other, face the camera seemingly embarrassed to be caught in this situation.
OOI-RCA student worker Jolee Thirtyacre and a student wearing UW- appropriate purple gloves while they sample water from a CTD rosette on the side deck of the R/V Atlantis off the coast of Oregon.
A lava swirl formed and frozen in place during a previous Axial eruption
The Jason ROV being brought back aboard the Atlantis at dawn following dive J2-1725. Credit: M. Vardaro, University of Washington, V25.
A methane bubble plume obscuring one of our camera tripods at Southern Hydrate Ridge, surrounded by bacterial mats. Credit: UW/NSF-OOI/WHOI, J2-1719, V25.
Two sea slugs (possibly Hermissenda opalescens, also known as the opalescent nudibranch) crawling on the side of the Axial Base Shallow Profiler (200 meters depth). Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/WHOI; Dive J2-1702; V25
VISIONS'25 students Nadia and Lacie helping with water sampling in the lab of the R/V Atlantis. Credit: M. Elend, University of Washington, V25.
Breaching Humpback whale off the coast of Newport, OR. Credit: J. Tilley, UW-APL, V25
Overview map of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cabled Array off the Oregon coast, including the kilometers of undersea electro-optical cable that extend to seafloor nodes at Axial Seamount (a volcano 300 miles offshore) and back onto the slope and shelf to Southern Hydrate Ridge and near-shore sites. Credit : H. Hadaway, UW Center for Environmental Visualization