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
Last week, @cmos-scmo.bsky.social members, the ROPOS Team & our Board of Directors gathered together to honour the ROPOS Team's achievements!
We are honoured to receive the JP Tully Medal, which recognizes those whose scientific contributions have had a significant impact on Canadian oceanography!
We are honoured to receive the JP Tully Medal, which recognizes those whose scientific contributions have had a significant impact on Canadian oceanography!
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Last week, @cmos-scmo.bsky.social members, the ROPOS Team & our Board of Directors gathered together to honour the ROPOS Team's achievements!
We are honoured to receive the JP Tully Medal, which recognizes those whose scientific contributions have had a significant impact on Canadian oceanography!
We are honoured to receive the JP Tully Medal, which recognizes those whose scientific contributions have had a significant impact on Canadian oceanography!
🧪🦑 Last summer, we captured incredible selfie footage of @roposrov.bsky.social, took ground-breaking temperature measurements with an extra long probe & spotted a rare squid with eggs with the NEPDEP 2024 team.
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
#nepdep #DeepSea #MarineTechnology
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
#nepdep #DeepSea #MarineTechnology
March 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧪🦑 Last summer, we captured incredible selfie footage of @roposrov.bsky.social, took ground-breaking temperature measurements with an extra long probe & spotted a rare squid with eggs with the NEPDEP 2024 team.
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
#nepdep #DeepSea #MarineTechnology
Read about it on our website!
tinyurl.com/bdd3ws4a
#nepdep #DeepSea #MarineTechnology
Season's Greetings from Doug, the Keiths, Will, Peter, Barry, Luke, Robin, Ray and Laurie at the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility @roposrov.bsky.social!
📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific
📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific
December 28, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Season's Greetings from Doug, the Keiths, Will, Peter, Barry, Luke, Robin, Ray and Laurie at the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility @roposrov.bsky.social!
📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific
📸 Toby Hall, DFO Pacific
November 12, 2024 at 2:05 AM
🧪🦑 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
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
🧪 Today, we've been testing our systems and steaming to our first site, the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef Marine Protected Area!
10/ 📸 Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
10/ 📸 Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
August 17, 2024 at 4:14 AM
🧪 Today, we've been testing our systems and steaming to our first site, the Hecate Strait Glass Sponge Reef Marine Protected Area!
10/ 📸 Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
10/ 📸 Toby Hall, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
🧪 It has auto- focus & tracking, which means that we can tell it to find an eye on a fish & it will track the eye & continue to capture sharp imagery of it if the fish swims away.
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:49 AM
🧪 It has auto- focus & tracking, which means that we can tell it to find an eye on a fish & it will track the eye & continue to capture sharp imagery of it if the fish swims away.
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
We installed it for our last mission & are now using it for all our imagery!
9/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
🧪 Within this rectangular housing is our new camera, the Nikon Z9.
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
8/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
8/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:47 AM
🧪 Within this rectangular housing is our new camera, the Nikon Z9.
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
8/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
It's the only camera that has the ability to take 8K, high-definition video!
8/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:46 AM
The mechanism that makes the LARS (Launch & Recovery System) function consists of the HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), the level wind and the cable drum.
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
6/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
6/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:34 AM
The mechanism that makes the LARS (Launch & Recovery System) function consists of the HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit), the level wind and the cable drum.
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
6/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
Here, our @roposrov.bsky.social Team is diligently connecting the power cables and hydraulic hoses, which...
6/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
🧪 Our USBL pole will hang off the side of the Tully. It receives acoustic signals from the beacon mounted on @roposrov.bsky.social.
This information, together with the GPS & position of the ship, gives us the relative position of @roposrov.bsky.social.
5/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
This information, together with the GPS & position of the ship, gives us the relative position of @roposrov.bsky.social.
5/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:32 AM
🧪 Our USBL pole will hang off the side of the Tully. It receives acoustic signals from the beacon mounted on @roposrov.bsky.social.
This information, together with the GPS & position of the ship, gives us the relative position of @roposrov.bsky.social.
5/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
This information, together with the GPS & position of the ship, gives us the relative position of @roposrov.bsky.social.
5/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
🧪 You can read about all of our baggage (🛄!) in last year’s thread (if you also have X - sorry),
x.com/ROPOS_ROV/st...
but this year, we’ll share some new things with you.
4/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
x.com/ROPOS_ROV/st...
but this year, we’ll share some new things with you.
4/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:30 AM
🧪 You can read about all of our baggage (🛄!) in last year’s thread (if you also have X - sorry),
x.com/ROPOS_ROV/st...
but this year, we’ll share some new things with you.
4/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
x.com/ROPOS_ROV/st...
but this year, we’ll share some new things with you.
4/ 📸 @janetmfr.bsky.social #nepdep
August 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
🧪🦑 For information on the expedition, including the science, dive schedule, live stream video and outreach events, check out the #nepdep website at:
tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
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tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
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August 13, 2024 at 2:28 PM
🧪🦑 For information on the expedition, including the science, dive schedule, live stream video and outreach events, check out the #nepdep website at:
tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
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tinyurl.com/nepdep2024
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