Data and information collected by the ROV Jason along its track during sixteen dives of the 2007 "Expedition to the Deep Slope" expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration and Minerals Management Service (MMS), June 4 through July 6, 2007. Measurements and information include sub's position, altitude, and depth; dive, mission, and vehicle ID's.

Data and information collected by the submersible Johnson Sea-Link II along its track during seventeen dives of the 2003 "Life on the Edge: Exploring Deep Ocean Habitats" expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration, August 16 through August 27, 2003. Measurements and information include sub's position, altitude, and depth; personnel assignments; dive, mission, and vehicle ID's; and sound velocity measurements. The Marine Operations Division of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution provided the original submersible data.

Based on the detail seafloor observation by human occupied vehicles (Shinkai6500), we observed the distribution of serpentinite-driven fluid flows and microbial and macrofaunal communities with the seafloor topography, obtained various types of rocks, sediments, deposits and waters, and animals. Most of the data and samples are still under investigation in onshore laboratories. These data are augmented by underway measurements taken by CTD installed on the Shinkai6500 and XBT profile data. This cruise is U.S. State Department MSR U2022-052 as part of the World Data Service for Geophysics and Oceanography. Data are in text and instrument-specific formats.

Data and information collected by Gavia AUVs along tracks during dives of the "Bonaire 2008" expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, January 7 through 30, 2008. Measurements and information include sub's position, and depth; and dive, mission, and vehicle ID's.

The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) was established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Hawaii. Its mission is to study deep water marine processes in the Pacific Ocean. The primary means of surveying are through use of the Submersibles Pisces IV and V and with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This dataset contains CTD data from a Seabird SEACAT instrument mounted on the submersibles and the ROV from 593 dives. Sound velocity profiles have been calculated for select dives. There were 17 dives at the Cross Seamount in March-May 1995. The rest were during 2001-2012 in locations from New Zealand to American Samoa in the south Pacific, and from the Line Islands to the Northwest Hawaiian Islands in the north Pacific. The data have not been rigorously quality controlled. Use the data with discretion. Please inform the HURL data management team if questionable signals are encountered. HURL and NOAA are not responsible for misuse of the data. Additional HURL CTD data during 1990-1999 are available in NCEI Accession 0000807.

Data and information collected by the submersible Johnson Sea-Link II at waypoints along its track during one dive of the 2002 "Islands in the Stream - Outer Shelf and Slope Habitats" expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration, August 5 - 15, 2002. Measurements and information include sub's position and depth; personnel assignments; dive, mission, target, and vehicle ID's; dive comments; hyperlinks to CTD plots; water temperature; and salinity. The Marine Operations Division of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution provided the original submersible data. Quality assurance included a comparsion and synchronization of dive log waypoint depths and CTD depths, review of minimum and maximum values, and deletion of bad values.

Subbottom Profile data files: Subbottom Profiler

Data and information collected by the submersible Johnson Sea-Link II along its track during fourteen dives of the 2003 "Investigating the Charleston Bump" expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration, August 2 through August 16, 2003. Measurements and information include sub's position, altitude, and depth; personnel assignments; dive, mission, and vehicle ID's; and sound velocity measurements. The Marine Operations Division of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution provided the original submersible data.

Knudsen CHIRP 3260 Subbottom Profiler raw files (.kea, .keb, .sgy)

Despite substantial interference from hurricanes Bonnie, Charley, and Katrina, Operations Deep-Scope 2004 and 2005 were extremely successful. In addition to numerous discoveries (e.g., fluorescent sharks, new large deep-sea squid, UV vision in deep-sea crabs, the importance of polarized light and bioluminescent searchlights), these expeditions developed several new technologies. The Eye-in-the-Sea is now a robust stealth camera system; waveband, fluorescence, polarization, and UV imaging techniques are well-developed; and we can now collect deep-sea benthic species without damaging their eyes. Together these achievements place us in a unique position to explore the deep sea in innovative and exciting ways. In 2007 we propose to extend the envelope of this exciting frontier in ocean exploration in two ways: 1) developing further imaging and listening technologies, 2) using the currently developed methods to explore the cliffs in the Bahamas that range from the surface to 3000 feet in depth. Results from this proposal will characterize an important deep-sea benthic environment, and use new technologies to locate inorganic and organic ocean resources, fulfilling two of the main themes of Ocean Exploration. The proposed cliff sites range from shallow coral reefs to the abyssal plain and will allow us to explore a large number of benthic communities in a small location and learn how depth affects undersea life. Given the technological focus of our research however, if the ships' schedules should make it difficult to work in this area we would welcome the opportunity to test these new technologies at any biologically rich sites. Unlike many research cruises, which focus in depth on one problem and method, we propose a number of smaller projects that are linked by the methods and questions of visual ecology and optical oceanography. The ultimate goal of our highly interdisciplinary group of researchers is to explore and characterize the deep-sea world in these new ways.