ROPOS ROV
@roposrov.bsky.social
The Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Sciences (ROPOS) is a submersible designed from the ground up to excel at scientific research. 🇨🇦
🌐 North Saanich, BC, Canada 🔗 ropos.com
📅 Joined October 2023
🌐 North Saanich, BC, Canada 🔗 ropos.com
📅 Joined October 2023
December 9, 2024 at 7:35 PM
2024 NEPDEP Expedition — NorthEast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project (NEPDEP)
www.nepdep.com
September 8, 2024 at 6:49 PM
🧪🦑 It was a great pleasure to support the NEPDEP 2024 expedition and to work with the NEPDEP Science Team for another year!
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep
September 8, 2024 at 6:43 PM
🧪🦑 It was a great pleasure to support the NEPDEP 2024 expedition and to work with the NEPDEP Science Team for another year!
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep
Cherisse Du Preez is a long-time friend, and we always look forward to expeditions with her group!
22/ 📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific #nepdep
🧪🦑 Some highlights and rare sights from our 2nd week of dives!
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
21/ 📸 #nepdep & @roposrov.bsky.social
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
21/ 📸 #nepdep & @roposrov.bsky.social
September 8, 2024 at 6:25 PM
🧪🦑 Some highlights and rare sights from our 2nd week of dives!
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
21/ 📸 #nepdep & @roposrov.bsky.social
Skate migration, forest of rare corals on extended summit of NEPDEP 58, young Stygiomedusa jelly & blobfish eggs!
21/ 📸 #nepdep & @roposrov.bsky.social
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from the last 3 days in the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA from ~800-300 m depth!
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
20/ #nepdep
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
20/ #nepdep
August 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from the last 3 days in the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA from ~800-300 m depth!
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
20/ #nepdep
We'll be diving later today & revisiting the same 4 sites for the rest of the week!
Keep checking the schedule for changes: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024.
20/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 On the way up from the skate nursery on Day 5, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team sprung to action when they spotted and managed to catch video of a Gonatus squid brooding its eggs!
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
/19 #nepdep
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
/19 #nepdep
August 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM
🧪🦑 On the way up from the skate nursery on Day 5, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team sprung to action when they spotted and managed to catch video of a Gonatus squid brooding its eggs!
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
/19 #nepdep
See UTC Time: 22:32:14
tinyurl.com/Gonatus
We've since found out that this is rare footage!
/19 #nepdep
🧪🦑 It's Day 7, and we're on bottom at the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA!
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
18/ #nepdep
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
18/ #nepdep
August 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
🧪🦑 It's Day 7, and we're on bottom at the SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount MPA!
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
18/ #nepdep
Join via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
18/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today in at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network from ~600-300 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
17/ #nepdep
We are now transiting to our next site.
17/ #nepdep
August 23, 2024 at 4:07 AM
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today in at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network from ~600-300 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
17/ #nepdep
We are now transiting to our next site.
17/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 It's Day 6, and we're on bottom at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network!
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
16/ #nepdep
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
16/ #nepdep
August 22, 2024 at 8:08 PM
🧪🦑 It's Day 6, and we're on bottom at the proposed Offshore Haida Gwaii MPA network!
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
16/ #nepdep
It's both ours and our science team's first time ever exploring this area!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
16/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today, at the NEPDEP 58 Seamount skate nursery at ~1600 m depth!
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
15/ #nepdep
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
15/ #nepdep
August 22, 2024 at 6:14 AM
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from today, at the NEPDEP 58 Seamount skate nursery at ~1600 m depth!
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
15/ #nepdep
Tomorrow, we'll be diving later in the day.
See you then!
15/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 Today is Day 5, and we're on bottom at the NEPDEP 58 skate nursery!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
14/ #nepdep
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
14/ #nepdep
August 21, 2024 at 4:11 PM
🧪🦑 Today is Day 5, and we're on bottom at the NEPDEP 58 skate nursery!
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
14/ #nepdep
Join us via the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
Or on the NEPDEP Facebook page: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024fb
14/ #nepdep
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from 2 of our first 4 dive days, in the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge MPA at ~200 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
13/ #nepdep
We are now transiting to our next site.
13/ #nepdep
August 21, 2024 at 3:32 AM
🧪🦑 Here are some stills from 2 of our first 4 dive days, in the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge MPA at ~200 m depth!
We are now transiting to our next site.
13/ #nepdep
We are now transiting to our next site.
13/ #nepdep
It's a sediment sample collected with a push core!
August 17, 2024 at 6:00 PM
It's a sediment sample collected with a push core!
August 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM
🧪🦑 It's Day 1 and we are now live! Today, we're exploring the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef MPA!
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
11/ #nepdep
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
11/ #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM
🧪🦑 It's Day 1 and we are now live! Today, we're exploring the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef MPA!
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
11/ #nepdep
Watch on the NEPDEP website: tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
or on the Northeast Pacific Deep-sea Exploration Project's Facebook page.
11/ #nepdep