OOI-RCA

Completed

Sally Ride

Scripps Institution of Oceanography · USA

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PortPlanned routeMooring / vehicle

Planned route: 4 segments · ~2 days steaming · 3 stations

Operating area: Cascadia Margin and

Route: Newport (Oregon) - United States → Newport (Oregon) - United States

Aug 18 – Aug 23, 20254 days at seaactual: departed Aug 18, 2025, arrived Aug 23, 2025

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Sally Ride

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

CalCOFI Summer Fall 2025 +3 — Southern California Current System.OSU REU +1 — California Current OOI-RCA — Cascadia Margin and Chinook — Just seaward of Cascadia deformation front offshore Oregon and Washington, USA OOI Endurance Array 23 — The shelf and slope 1-50 nautical miles south from Waldport, OR north to Copalis Head, WA

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Project aboard

We are requesting use of the R/V Sally Ride to recover and install three Deep Profiler Moorings as part of the annual Operations and Maintenance cruise for the National Science Foundations Ocean Observatories Initiative Regional Cabled Array. This work was postponed in 2024 due because the moorings could not be turned on the R/V Atlantis . This will require a two-ship operation utilizing the Sally Ride for the mooring turns and the Atlantis with Jason to unplug and plug in the moorings.

People aboard

Deborah Kelley · Principal investigator

Party size: 12

Estimated vacant berths: 14

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
Crane
Stern A-Frame
Navigation - Heading/Position
Dynamic Positioning (DP)
Pinger, 12kHz
ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)

Science party brings

Science Supplied Portable Winch

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SR2518 Michel-Hart · MFP reference 24/4673 · synced Sep 24, 2026