RCA Cruise Turns Toward Recovery Operation

The Regional Cabled Array team successfully completed its annual operations and maintenance cruise and was supposed to be back in port September 2. The R/V Thompson and ROV Jason, however, were called on to assist the E/V Nautilus recover its two ROVs Hercules and Argus.  Don’t miss the remarkable opportunity to watch this operation live http://nautiluslive.org/. 

The two ROVs were successfully recovered.  After a 26-hour diversion, the Thompson headed back to port for the official end of the RCA expedition.