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Vent snail adaptation

Completed
Thomas G. Thompson

Thomas G. Thompson

University of Washington · USA

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Planned route: 8 segments · ~4 days steaming · 7 stations

Operating area: Lau Basin

Route: Suva - Fiji → Lautoka - Fiji


Apr 18 – May 18, 202629 days at seaactual: departed Apr 18, 2026, arrived May 18, 2026

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Projects aboard (4)

2026 Jason Engineering TGT

No description for this project yet.


People aboard

2026 Jason Engineering TGT

  • Kevin Kavanagh · Principal investigator

Vent snail adaptation

  • Roxanne Beinart Beinart · Principal investigator

EE Wellhead

  • Andrew Redd · Principal investigator

Vent Recovery After Burial 1

  • Shawn Arellano · Principal investigator
  • Roxanne Beinart Beinart · Chief scientist

Party size: 34

Estimated vacant berths: 1

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

  • Navigation - Heading/Position
  • Dynamic Positioning (DP)
  • Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
  • Stern A-Frame
  • Dynamic Positioning (DP)
  • Underway Seawater System
  • Navigation - Heading/Position
  • Dynamic Positioning (DP)
  • Meteorological Data
  • Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
  • Navigation - Heading/Position
  • Dynamic Positioning (DP)
  • Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
  • Crane
  • Underway Seawater System
  • Ship Fitted Winches & Wires

Pooled / portable

  • Winch Pool Portable Winch
  • WHOI MISO Camera System
  • XBT
  • McLane WTS-LV
  • MOC-10
  • WHOI MISO Camera System

Science party brings

  • Science-provided vans
  • Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
  • Science-provided vans
  • Science-provided vans

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code TN-452 Vent Snail Ad · MFP references 25/6413, 21/682, 26/6907, 25/6239 · synced Sep 30, 2026