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Out of Plain Sight – Trailer

WHOI was featured in “Out of Plain Sight” which premiered at the DOC NY Film Festival in November. The film documents dumped DDT waste of the coast of California telling a story which stemmed from surveys and sampling using AUV Sentry and ROV Jason.

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mROV Press Release

mROV Concept Rendering

WHOI will produce two medium-sized remotely operated vehicles (mROVs) beginning later this year. Read the official press release!

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POV of an ROV: Day in the life of Jason

Drawing of ROV Jason from the trench blog

Read the account of a day in the life of ROV Jason from the ROV’s perspective. The Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment blog accounts recent cruise with Chief Scientist, David Schmidt, of University of Washington. POV of a ROV: Day in the life of Jason (near-trench.blogspot.com)

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Tracking the ups and downs of Axial Seamount

Jason Control Van

Story by Marley Parker Bright lights illuminate rain drops splattering across the back deck of R/V Atlantis. It’s just after 2:00 a.m., but the entire ROV team (and most of our science team) is awake and ready to go to work. Expedition Leader Akel Kevis-Stirling lifts a radio to his ear as the voice of…

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Robot Rescues!

ROV Jason assists in the recovery of three autonomous research platforms—two of which were unplanned—during the Visions 23 expedition to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cabled Array. Read more >

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