NOAA Okeanos

Leg 1 - Mapping
Mapping Southeast Gulf of Mexico
-En Route from Rhode Island to
Galveston

Leg 2 - Mapping
Mapping Northwest Gulf of Mexico
-En Route from Galveston to
Pascagoula

Leg 3 Remote Exploration

NW Basin
-Two Cold Seep Sites
-Two Deep Sea Coral Habitats
-Three Shipwrecks
-Keathley Canyon
-Bryant Canyon
-Two Asphalt Volcanoes
Florida Escarpment
-Two Seafloor Habitats
-Two Deep Sea Coral Habitats
Additional Sonar Mapping
TECH
E/V Okeanos Explorer
Two ROVs Deep Discoverer
Seirios

Nautilus
ECOGIG
Natural Gas and Oil Seepage and
its effect on the environment
- ECOGIG - Ecosystem Impacts of
Oil and Gas Inputs into the Gulf of
Mexico Consortium
- Studying effects and responses
directly related to Deepwater
Horizon
GISR
Study of How Petroleum moves
through ocean currents
- GISR Gulf Integrated Spill
Response
- Critical to inform response to oil
spills and development of
mitigation plans
-Attempting to develop a modeling
program to track pathways of
hydrocarbons released from deep
oil spills
- Acoustically and visually map
bubble/droplet plume twice a day
Unknown America
Natural and Cultural
Resources
Visiting Brine pools and
lakes
German U-Boat U-166
Robert E. Lee
Two Oil Tankers: Gulf Penn
and Gulfoil which have rare
coral growth around them

TECH
E/V Nautilus
ROV Hercules
ROV Argus

Multibeam Sonar

Telepresence
Discoveries
NW BASIN
Encountered Dumbo Octopus
Paleodictyon burrows in keathley
canyon
Rare orange Sea Star
Previously unknown asphalt
volcanoes
Discovery of a chronometer
FLORIDA ESCARPMENT
New Species of Crinoids
Sea urchin eating an octocoral

Multibeam Sonar
Subbottom Profiler
XBT
Hi-Res Mapping
Telepresence
Discoveries
Encountered Dumbo Octopus