Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico

By para_sight, on March 31st, 2012 14 comments   Expeditions, New Research, Oil Spills, Vessels and Equipment   exploration, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer  

This is a time sensitive post.  By the time some find it, there may be nothing showing, but right now at 1155hrs EDSL, there’s a great feed from the Little Hercules ROV at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, looking at some deep corals

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14 comments to Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico

• Eric

  March 31, 2012 at 12:07 · Reply

  This is way cool. I was really hoping they’d do something like this for the dive to the Challenger Deep last week. I love that there are operating sounds (or just narration?) as well.

• Aeolius

  March 31, 2012 at 12:30 · Reply

  darnnit… I have to go take my kids to see “The Hunger Games” in a few… this is much cooler.

• Comment1

  March 31, 2012 at 13:57 · Reply

  Snake Stars and Bubblegum Coral. Perfect!

• Aquanautix

  March 31, 2012 at 20:55 · Reply

  this will be happening tomorrow too and next week live 9-5 am EST

  • para_sight

    March 31, 2012 at 21:54 · Reply

    Every day? That’s cool. What’ the best time to chime in to see bottom footage. I also had a period of descent and ascent today and there’s not much to watch then

• Aquanautix

  March 31, 2012 at 20:58 · Reply

  oops 9a -5p EST

• Aeolius

  March 31, 2012 at 22:09 · Reply

  There should be a chat room established, so we can all scream “Pan Left!! Pan Left!! Zoom In!!!” at the same time.

• Aquanautix

  April 1, 2012 at 09:01 · Reply

  This is a ‘telepresence enabled’ expedition, so there actually is a chat room where scientists are saying exactly that kind of thing, Aeolius. It would be very cool to have a public chat room. I’ll put that in the suggestion box!

  • para_sight

    April 1, 2012 at 10:10 · Reply

    For the readers who may not know OE. Can you explain what we are hearing? I assume it’s a scientist stateside at one of the control centers, relaying requests to an ROV pilot on the ship. Is that correct?

• Aeolius

  April 1, 2012 at 11:36 · Reply

  My wife seems less than thrilled that I am listening to this. At one point, when the gentleman directing the ROV was going “ohh… ohhh… ohhhh…” she asked “WHAT IS HE DOING??”

  “He’s…umm… having a deep sea organism?” I replied.

  • Kevin Zelnio

    April 2, 2012 at 09:45 · Reply

    ROFL! I love it when I get a deep sea organism myself ;p

• Aquanautix

  April 1, 2012 at 13:48 · Reply

  I believe you are hearing shipboard biologists in Stream1, and shipboard pilots and video operators in stream 2.

• Aeolius

  April 1, 2012 at 14:34 · Reply

  Living vicariously through an ROV ;)

• CapnJeff

  April 3, 2012 at 19:46 · Reply

  You can also track the Okeanos Explorer in real time here – http://shiptracker.noaa.gov/shiptracker.html