Links to ROPOS Remotely Operated Submersible operations videos.
Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility
Sidney BC Canada
Updated August 11 2014
New Videos About ROPOS
ROPOS Launch & Recovery System
Cabled Observatory Operations
Dive 1458 - Instrument deployments with tool basket
Dive 1459 – Trawl resistant Frame and Primary Node Deployment
Dive 1460 – 2 wire recovery of Trawl Resistant Frame and Node
Dive 1461 – Methane hydrate sampling and instrument platform recovery
Dive 1471 – Sensorbot instrument recovery with toolbasket
Dive 1552 – Neptune instrument platform deployment at Barkley Canyon
Dive 1548 – Cable installation operations at ODP1027
Dive 1546 – Instrument platform recovery to deck at Barkley Canyon
ROCLS cable spool deployment from deck
Neptune Cabled Observatory 2011 cruise highlights
Temperature probe installation in hydrothermal vent
COVIS hydrothermal vent imaging SONAR deployment
ROPOS installing a cable at Main Endeavour Vent field.
Deploying ROPOS with an instrument platform
Chief scientist update – ROPOS and the toolbasket
Chief scientist update – Mooring string deployments at Endeavour Ridge
Chief scientist update – Arrival at Endeavour Ridge
Vertical profiler and junction box deployment
Vertical profiler deployment 2
ODI underwater cable connector manipulation
ROPOS ROV cable laying system sea trial 2007
ROPOS ROV - Cruising with VENUS Underwater Observatory Part1
ROPOS ROV - Cruising with VENUS Part2
ROPOS ROV - Cruising with VENUS Part3
ROPOS ROV - Cruising with VENUS Part4
Subsea Volcanoes and Hydrothermal Vent Systems
Hydrothermal vent creatures. Exploring Axial Volcano hydrothermal vents
Dive 1467 – Axial volcano recent eruption, Snowblowers.
Dive 1468 – Hydrothermal vents and instrument deployment
Dive 1469 – Instrument deployment and recovery at hydrothermal vents
Dive 1470 – Fish, crabs at Axial volcano hydrothermal vent system
Dive 1471 – Site survey at Skadi’s Cauldron
Dive 1473 – Axial volcano exploration of recent lava flow
Dive 1474 – Biology at Southern Hydrate Ridge
Endeavour Ridge Hydrothermal vents. Tales from the blue.
Black clouds at Godzilla hydrothermal vent.
Black Smoker and Hot Vent Creatures
Creatures of the deep:
Dive 1465 – Sea cucumber, octopus, corals, sponges
Dive 1466 – Cable inspection, octopus, skates
ODP1027 Sea Spider at 2644 metres
Crabs feeding in methane hydrate gas bubble field
Ghostly Skate on Juan de Fuca Ridge
A large school of Pacific sunfish
Deep sea corals at Endeavour Ridge
Kraki the octopus broods her eggs in a rice cooker
Sea pen and sea cucumber at 2660 metres
Walking fish in the Southern Ocean
Glass sponges and deep sea corals – Dixon Entrance
Humboldt Squid in Barkley Canyon
Methane Hydrates
Dive 1464 – Methane hydrates and instrument recovery
ROV Deck Operations.
ROPOS ROV recovery to deck with ToolBasket
Search and Recovery
Queen of the North wreck survey and equipment recovery
TSB Simulation of Queen of the North accident