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©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) are unoccupied, highly maneuverable underwater robots operated by a person aboard a surface vessel. They are linked to the ship by a group of cables that carry electrical signals back and forth between the operator and the vehicle. Most are equipped with at least a video camera and lights. Additional equipment is commonly added to expand the vehicle’s capabilities. These may include a still camera, a manipulator or cutting arm, water samplers, and instruments that measure water clarity, light penetration, and temperature.
| Dataset Name | PI-Supplied Description | PI-Supplied Name |
|---|---|---|
| Amino acid compound specific isotope analyses of abyssal deposit feeders, gut contents, and surrounding surface sediments collected on R/V Atlantis cruise AT42-10 and R/V Western Flyer Pulse 72 in the eastern North Pacific in 2019 | Sediment cores and megafauna were collected in October 2019 using the ROV Doc Ricketts | ROV Doc Ricketts |
| Description of Axial Seamount hydrothermal sampling sites from 5 cruises to the Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge from 2012 to 2015 (NeMO2015 project) | Used to collect hydrothermal vent samples. For further information, see http://ropos.com/ | ROV ROPOS |
| Benthic habitat correlates of juvenile fish and invertebrates from the F/V North Star NEC-MD2001-1 from the the Western GoM Closed Area (NEC-CoopRes project) | sediment profile camera imager (SPI camera) | Remotely Operated Vehicle |
| Identifications from biological samples collected with ROV ROPOS during R/V Falkor cruise FK160407 to hydrothermal vents in the Lau Basin, Tonga in April of 2016 | Using ROV ROPOS suction sampler | ROV ROPOS |
| Acoustic backscatter from krill and silverfish in McMurdo Sound from 2014-2015 | SCINI ROV (https://bitbucket.org/scinirov/scini/wiki/Home) | SCINI ROV |
| Acoustic backscatter from sites in McMurdo Sound from 2014-2015 (McMurdo Predator Prey project) | SCINI ROV (https://bitbucket.org/scinirov/scini/wiki/Home) | SCINI ROV |
| Epifaunal abundance and diversity in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica from October 2010 (McMurdo Marine Benthos project) | Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) is a small, slender vehicle that can fit through a 20 cm hole in the ice, allowing for deployment without heavy drilling equipment and with minimal logistical support. Its maximum depth capability is 300 m. SCINI is equipped with two video cameras, scaling lasers, and lights, with forward speeds of up to 4 knots. SCINI uses Ethernet over power on a 400 m long two-wire tether. A long baseline acoustic positioning system is used for navigation which uses a combination of two to four acoustic transducers hanging below the ice and a synchronized pinger on the vehicle for positional accuracy of better than 1 metre. [See Cazenave, F, R Zook, D Carroll, M Flagg, S Kim. 2011. Development of the ROV SCINI and deployment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Ocean Technology 6(3):39-58.] | ROV |
| Volcano sponge size on artificial substrates in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica from October 2010 (McMurdo Marine Benthos project) | Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) is a small, slender vehicle that can fit through a 20 cm hole in the ice, allowing for deployment without heavy drilling equipment and with minimal logistical support. Its maximum depth capability is 300 m. SCINI is equipped with two video cameras, scaling lasers, and lights, with forward speeds of up to 4 knots. SCINI uses Ethernet over power on a 400 m long two-wire tether. A long baseline acoustic positioning system is used for navigation which uses a combination of two to four acoustic transducers hanging below the ice and a synchronized pinger on the vehicle for positional accuracy of better than 1 metre. [See Cazenave, F, R Zook, D Carroll, M Flagg, S Kim. 2011. Development of the ROV SCINI and deployment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Ocean Technology 6(3):39-58.] | SCINI |
| Sequence read accession (SRA) numbers for bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gene amplicons from the DeepCCZ and Abyssline programs | See: https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/UMC/cms/Luukai.php SOEST took delivery of the ROV Lu'ukai in 2013. It is a two-part, "top hat" system, consisting of the vehicle itself, performing science operations on the seabed or in the water column, and a Tether Management System (TMS) which hovers above the working vehicle and relays power and data to and from the support ship on the surface. The two components are launched, recovered and transported to the ocean floor as a stacked unit. Upon arrival at the work site, the ROV vehicle is "undocked" from the TMS and piloted to the seabed to commence a mission. Upon completion of the mission, the vehicle is docked to the TMS and the "stack" is then recovered to deck. | ROV Lu'ukai |
| Abundance of taxa from images collected by the ROV/SCINI in benthic quadrats under the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Dec. 2008 | Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) is a small, slender vehicle that can fit through a 20 cm hole in the ice, allowing for deployment without heavy drilling equipment and with minimal logistical support. Its maximum depth capability is 300 m. SCINI is equipped with two video cameras, scaling lasers, and lights, with forward speeds of up to 4 knots. SCINI uses Ethernet over power on a 400 m long two-wire tether. A long baseline acoustic positioning system is used for navigation which uses a combination of two to four acoustic transducers hanging below the ice and a synchronized pinger on the vehicle for positional accuracy of better than 1 meter. [See Cazenave, F, R Zook, D Carroll, M Flagg, S Kim. 2011. Development of the ROV SCINI and deployment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Ocean Technology 6(3):39-58.] | ROV/SCINI |
| Abundance of taxa from images collected by the ROV/SCINI along benthic transects under the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Nov./Dec. 2008 | Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) is a small, slender vehicle that can fit through a 20 cm hole in the ice, allowing for deployment without heavy drilling equipment and with minimal logistical support. Its maximum depth capability is 300 m. SCINI is equipped with two video cameras, scaling lasers, and lights, with forward speeds of up to 4 knots. SCINI uses Ethernet over power on a 400 m long two-wire tether. A long baseline acoustic positioning system is used for navigation which uses a combination of two to four acoustic transducers hanging below the ice and a synchronized pinger on the vehicle for positional accuracy of better than 1 meter. [See Cazenave, F, R Zook, D Carroll, M Flagg, S Kim. 2011. Development of the ROV SCINI and deployment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Ocean Technology 6(3):39-58.] | ROV/SCINI |
| Abundance of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTU's) from images collected by the ROV/SCINI along midwater transects under the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Dec. 2008 | Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) is a small, slender vehicle that can fit through a 20 cm hole in the ice, allowing for deployment without heavy drilling equipment and with minimal logistical support. Its maximum depth capability is 300 m. SCINI is equipped with two video cameras, scaling lasers, and lights, with forward speeds of up to 4 knots. SCINI uses Ethernet over power on a 400 m long two-wire tether. A long baseline acoustic positioning system is used for navigation which uses a combination of two to four acoustic transducers hanging below the ice and a synchronized pinger on the vehicle for positional accuracy of better than 1 meter. [See Cazenave, F, R Zook, D Carroll, M Flagg, S Kim. 2011. Development of the ROV SCINI and deployment in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Journal of Ocean Technology 6(3):39-58.] | ROV/SCINI |
| Be-7 from water samples from the Arctic collected on RV Polarstern cruise ARK-XXVI/3 from Tromso, Norway to Bremerhaven, Germany in 2011 (Be-7 Tracer Method project) | A hydrohole was cut through the ice, followed by the lowering of a portable conductivity, temperature, depth probe (CTD) to determine mixed layer depth. A weighted sampling hose was then deployed to the center of the observed mixed layer. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) observations confirmed that the weighted hose attained accurate deployment-depth measurements from the ice surface. | ROV |