Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

Mission Summary

From September 6 to 30, 2017, NOAA and partners conducted a telepresence-enabled ocean exploration expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer to collect critical baseline information about unknown and poorly understood deepwater areas around the Musicians Seamounts and the Hawaiian Islands.

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Infographic summarizing accomplishments from the Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts expedition.

Mission Summary

This expedition is part of the three-year Campaign to Address Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean NEeds (CAPSTONE), an initiative to collect deepwater baseline information to support science and management decisions in and around U.S. marine protected areas in the central and western Pacific."

USS Baltimore (C-3) Photogrammetry Model

Sheets of lava everywhere, but not a pillow to be found

After two amazing weeks conducting the first-ever remotely operated vehicle exploration in the Musicians Seamounts, here are just a few of the high notes.

Check out just a few of the high notes from our dives.

CAPSTONE Homecoming

Time-lapse video of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer making her way into port in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Dive 21: Finding Mysteries

Dive into the mysteries of the deep!

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Dive 15: The Dancing Vacuum Cleaner

While exploring Mozart Seamount, the team encountered this dancing sea cucumber doing what it does best – cleaning up the bottom sediment of organic material.

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Deep-Sea Symphony: Exploring the Musicians Seamounts

Mission Summary

Recent Updates