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ONC operates world-leading ocean observatories on the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic coasts of Canada, and in the Southern Ocean. One of Canada's Major Research Facilities & a University of Victoria initiative. oceannetworks.ca

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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 29/09/2026
2/🧡#OrangeShirtDay began in Williams Lake, BC in 2013 at the St. Joseph Mission residential school commemoration event, at which survivor Phyllis Webstad told the story of her new orange shirt that was taken away from her on her first day of school at the Mission. 🧡 uvic.ca/orangeshirtday @uvic.ca
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Orange Shirt Day - University of Victoria - University of Victoria
UVic is committed to reconciliation. We're working to foster truth, respect and mutual understanding with all Indigenous peoples and communities. You can partner in the work of reconciliation by liste...
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 29/09/2026
1/🧡 We wear orange to honour residential school survivors, remember the lost children, and recognize the enduring impact of the Indigenous residential school system. ONC will be closed on Wed Sep 30 to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. uvic.ca/orangeshirtday @uvic.ca
A group of people, smiling at the camera, wearing orange in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 28/09/2026
From breaching whales to a playful dolphin pod, ONC staff encountered a amazing wildlife during the West Coast Distributed Biological Observatory expedition along the Inside Passage between Victoria & Prince Rupert, and the #ONCabyss Summer Expedition offshore of Vancouver Island. #WildWestCoast
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 24/09/2026
As #Canada joins the global efforts to strengthen ocean observing through the OceanEye International Alliance, ONC brings the expertise, partnerships, and infrastructure to advance a made-in-Canada Arctic observing system & strengthen how we #KnowTheOcean. 🔗 bit.ly/3V8HY3X #OceanObserving #CDNsci
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ONC pledges support for Canada-EU-led OceanEye International Alliance
ONC well positioned to strengthen ocean observation from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean.
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌊🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳Honoured to be at #UNGA81 in New York this week with @oceannetworks.ca, invited by the European Commission to support Canada's commitment to the OceanEye International Alliance. 🧵
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
Do you have what it takes to complete a 48-hour data marathon? Join the 2026 Ocean Hackathon and tackle one of five new challenges 🫵 Last day to register is tomorrow September 24 🔗 bit.ly/4ie13LE
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
5/🌍 "OceanEye International Alliance: Stronger Together for Ocean Observation" was co-chaired by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada. #UNGA81
A man and a woman smiling for a photo in front of a blue banner that reads "OceanEye International Alliance".
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
4/ 🌍 ONC interim president & CEO Jay Cullen (right) is proud to join fellow #Canadian delegates at this event; (left-to-right) Robert Lennox; Jamie Snook, PhD, Miriam Zitner; and Anne-Sophie Ste-Marie. #UNGA81
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
3/🌍 As Canada’s national ocean observatory & a world leader in cabled ocean observing networks, ONC recognizes the importance of sustained & accessible live & long-time-series ocean observations—an the international cooperation needed to make them possible. #UNGA81
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
2/🌍 Co-led by the European Union & Canada, in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the alliance is working to broaden support for a fit-for-purpose global ocean observing system. #UNGA81
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/09/2026
1/🌍 ONC is delighted to be invited by the @ec.europa.eu ropa.eu to support #Canada’s commitment to the OceanEye International Alliance at the 81st United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week in New York today. #UNGA81
Man in a suit with glasses taking a selfie in front of a blue banner promoting OceanEye Alliance internationale, a Canadian flag, and the European Flag.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 16/09/2026
2/🫨Vancouver subscribers received 32 seconds of notice from our system before ground shaking arrived. Learn more about ONC’s network of land+sea sensors, designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore #earthquakes in the subduction zone off the #BC coast 🌎 bit.ly/3Qronqv
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Earthquake Early Warning
ONC’s network of land & sea sensors is designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore earthquakes off the BC coast
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 16/09/2026
1/🫨ONC’s land+seafloor seismic network successfully detected an #earthquake 21km south southwest of Ucluelet, BC, on Sept 15 & notified critical infrastructure subscribers. The earthquake occurred around 2:30 am PDT. @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 14/09/2026
ONC had a busy summer! From supporting BC's shellfish industry w/ improved ocean monitoring, to helping develop infrastructure for a deep-sea neutrino telescope, we’ve been busy advancing ocean research & innovation. See what's making waves in our latest newsletter 🌊 bit.ly/4xlrxPf #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 10/09/2026
🌊 Ready to make waves? Join Ocean Hackathon 2026 in Victoria and spend 48 hours solving real-world ocean challenges using ONC's #BigData! 🏆 Win a trip to Brest, France, for the Grand Finale. 📅 Oct. 16-18, 2026 📍 Victoria, BC Register 🔗 bit.ly/4ie13LE
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 08/09/2026
🌊 Ocean Hackathon returns to Victoria! Turn real ocean data into innovative solutions for ocean conservation in this 48-hour challenge. 🏆 Win a trip to Brest, France, to compete in the Grand Finale. Register now 🔗 bit.ly/4ie13LE #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 02/09/2026
How can researchers accurately measure seafloor movement? During Leg 1 of the summer #ONCabyss expedition, ONC assisted in deploying the University of Rhode Island's PIES (Pressure Inverted Echo Sounder), an instrument for monitoring movement of tectonic plates using sound. #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 01/09/2026
During Leg 1 of the summer #ONCabyss expedition, the team aboard the CCGS John P. Tully completed an impressive 50 CTD rosette casts. Hear directly from Stef, ONC's sea-going scientist, about how these casts help us deliver high-quality #BigData from the deep ocean to the surface. #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/08/2026
2/🫨 YYJ subscribers received 23s of notice from our system before ground shaking arrived. Learn more about ONC’s network of land+sea seismic sensors 🌎 bit.ly/3Qronqv @uvic.ca c.ca @innovation.ca
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Earthquake Early Warning
ONC’s network of land & sea sensors is designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore earthquakes off the BC coast
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/08/2026
1/🫨 ONC’s land+seafloor seismic network successfully detected an #earthquake 70km northeast of Campbell River, BC, on Aug 30 & notified critical infrastructure subscribers. The earthquake occurred around 12:42am PT. University of Victoria CFI | FCI
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/08/2026
The first #OceanHackWeek hosted in Canada wrapped up last week at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre! Participants worked in teams tackling real oceanographic problems over five days using real datasets from ONC. We can’t wait to show you the results of their work! #KnowTheOcean
Group of people posing outdoors near a waterfront with trees and buildings in the background on a sunny day.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 27/08/2026
🚨DIVE ALERT 🚨ONC is aboard the M/V Canpac Valour stationed at Endeavour West Flank. ROV Mantis is 2,376 metres below sea surface recovering and deploying new instruments. Catch the action live 🌊 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 26/08/2026
🚨DIVE ALERT 🚨 We are back in the water at Endeavour! ROV Mantis is diving 2,181 metres below sea surface to recover an autonomous mooring. Catch the action live 🌊 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 25/08/2026
Talk about working under pressure! ROV Mantis is currently 2,200 metres deep, installing a new remote access sampler/phytoplankton sampler (RAS/PPS) under the watchful eye of a spider crab and a live online audience. Watch #ONCabyss now 🔗 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 24/08/2026
🚨DIVE ALERT 🚨ONC is aboard the M/V Canpac Valour at the Maine Endeavour Field! ROV Mantis is diving 2,196 metres below sea surface to deploy and recover instruments, collect Gas Tight sample, and more! Catch the action live 🌊 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 24/08/2026
We shared why we collect sediment samples from Endeavour—but how do we recover the instrument itself? ONC Project Engineer Peter Bunton breaks it down during Leg 1 of this summer’s #ONCabyss expedition. Watch Leg 2 live 🔗 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #KnowTheOcean @innovation.ca @mclanelabs.bsky.social
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 20/08/2026
What happens to the sediment collected from hydrothermal vents? 🌊 Hear from University of Victoria master's student Jack Carnochan, who joined ONC aboard the CCGS John P. Tully during Leg 1 of this summer's #ONCabyss. Leg 2 is now underway! Watch the live dives 👉 bit.ly/4xUgNbf
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 20/08/2026
🚨DIVE ALERT 🚨ONC is aboard the M/V Canpac Valour at Barkley Upper Slope! ROV Mantis is diving 394 metres below sea surface to deploy a new a camera platform, recover the old camera, + prepare the vertical profile system for recovery. Catch the action live 🌊 bit.ly/4xUgNbf #ONCabyss #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 19/08/2026
Thank you to Ivan Semeniuk from the Globe and Mail for the great coverage of the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (#PONE) shallow-water testing on Granville Island this summer! Check out the article 🔭 bit.ly/4xPYNi6 #KnowTheOcean
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Physicists want to catch neutrinos in the sea. Step 1: Make sure their machinery won’t drown
P-ONE could shed new light on a very strange particle – but first, it had to pass a swimming test on Vancouver’s Granville Island
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 19/08/2026
Leg 2 of the summer #ONCabyss expedition mobilizes tomorrow aboard Canpac Marine Services’ motor vessel (M/V) Canpac Valour! We are sailing from Aug 19-28 to continue maintenance on the NEPTUNE observatory off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Watch the dives 🌊 bit.ly/4xUgNbf
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 17/08/2026
🔭 Searching for the cosmos from the deep sea ONC and Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment partners finished a successful shallow-water testing on Granville Island! Next step 👉 deploying the first 1km subsea mooring off the BC coast. Read the full story 🔗 bit.ly/4vyKmyj #CdnSci
Large blue boat lift hoisting a covered vessel labeled P-ONE at a marina under a partly cloudy sky.Four workers push a large metal frame holding multiple wrapped cylindrical objects inside an industrial warehouse.A large underwater research device suspended between two docks over calm water, connected by cables and ropes.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 14/08/2026
💅 kinda chic to operate world-leading ocean observatories 🌊 #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 11/08/2026
The 7.4M #earthquake that occurred today in the Columbia was detected by ONC’s seafloor seismic sensors in the Pacific, 6,929 kilometres away. There is no tsunami warning for the B.C. coast. View the live data 👉🏼 bit.ly/oncearthquakedata #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 06/08/2026
4/🧵 #ONCabyss by the numbers Not pictured 👇 🐋 40+ whale sightings 🐬 A pod of dolphins surfing in our wake 🐦 Countless seabirds spotted along the way Big thanks to the CCGS John P. Tully crew for providing a safe home at sea + helping us successfully complete our science objectives! #KnowTheOcean
A group of smiling people posing on a ship deck with an overcast sky and ocean in the background.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 06/08/2026
3/🧵 #ONCabyss by the numbers 💦 Collected 444 water samples 🪨 Collected 105 sediment samples 🥧 Deployed 2 Pressure Inverted Echosounders (PIEs) from the University of Rhode Island #KnowTheOcean @innovation.ca
Hands holding a small black sealing gun over a glass jar of water sample on a worn wooden table.A man in a hardhat and orange lifejacket laying a ship deck holding a skinny bottle with sediment sample. Two round scientific devices on a short frame on the deck of a ship.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 06/08/2026
2/🧵 #ONCabyss by the numbers 🌊 Completed 50 CTD rosette casts 🪛 Hot-swapped (recovered, reconfigured, & redeployed) 5 sediment traps #KnowTheOcean @innovation.ca
A cylindrical scientific device with multiple long cylinders attached over the railings of a ship over the ocean.Large scientific sampling device with a yellow funnel surrounded by orange floats.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 06/08/2026
1/🧵 Leg 1 of #ONCabyss summer 2026 expedition has wrapped up with both the CCGS John P. Tully + M/V Canpac Valour safely returning to shore. During our time offshore the 13-person ONC + @uvic.ca team aboard the Tully were focused on completing various science-focused objectives 👇 @innovation.ca
Red and white research vessel named John P. Tully docked with an overcast sky in the background.
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 03/08/2026
🛳️ We met a blob sculpin, many deep-sea spider crabs, and of course Optimus Prime, while diving at the Endeavour site of the NEPTUNE observatory with Canpac Marine Services. Watch live 👉 ow.ly/HJnG50Zvfch #ONCAbyss @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
Blob sculpin fishDeep-sea spider crabDeep-sea spider crabOptimus Prime on an instrument platform
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 02/08/2026
👋 Say hello to the locals at 2,200m! 🌊 ONC & Canpac Marine Services are diving at the Endeavour site of the NEPTUNE observatory, inside the Tang.ɢ̱wan – ḥačxwiqak – Tsig̱is MPA. Watch live 👉https://ow.ly/HJnG50Zvfch University of Victoria CFI | FCI
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/07/2026
2/🫨Vancouver subscribers received 39 seconds of notice from our system before minor ground shaking. Learn more about ONC’s network of sensors, designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore #earthquakes off the #BC coast 🌎 bit.ly/3Qronqv #KnowTheOcean #CDNtech #EarthquakeEarlyWarning
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Earthquake Early Warning
ONC’s network of land & sea sensors is designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore earthquakes off the BC coast
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/07/2026
1/🫨ONC’s land+seafloor seismic network successfully detected an #earthquake 93 km northeast of Sayward BC, on July 30th & notified critical infrastructure subscribers. The earthquake occurred around 10:45 pm PT. @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 31/07/2026
🌊 The ultimate Canadian tool for deep-sea science? A hockey puck. 🏒 ONC uses modified hockey pucks as grip pads for ROV arms to grab heavy underwater gear. Very Canadian, eh? 🇨🇦 🔗 Follow along on our live dives: ow.ly/Z7xf50Zv7uT #KnowTheOcean #ONCabyss @uvic.ca ic @innovation.ca ion.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 30/07/2026
Costco hands out hot samples—we collect ours at 300°C on the seafloor. 🔥 No typo! 2,200m below the surface, ROV Mantis is surveying hydrothermal vents. Follow the #ONCabyss action here: bit.ly/4hoq8CT @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 29/07/2026
🚨DIVE ALERT 🚨 ONC is aboard the M/V Canpac Valour stationed at Endeavour! ROV Mantis is diving more than 2100 metres below sea surface! 🌊Watch the live dives 👉bit.ly/4hoq8CT  #KnowTheOcean #ONCabyss @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 28/07/2026
The significant #earthquake that occurred today at 12:27 AM PDT, 5km east of Uto, Japan, was detected by ONC’s seafloor seismic sensors in the NE Pacific 8,067 kilometres away. There is no tsunami warning for the BC coast. View the live data 👉🏼 bit.ly/oncearthquakedata #KnowTheOcean
ONC's earthquake early warning dashboard
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 27/07/2026
2/🫨Vancouver subscribers received 67 seconds of notice from our system before minor shaking arrived. Learn more about ONC’s network of land+sea sensors, designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore #earthquakes 🌎 bit.ly/3Qronqv #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #CDNtech #EarthquakeEarlyWarning
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Earthquake Early Warning
ONC’s network of land & sea sensors is designed to provide maximum warning time for offshore earthquakes off the BC coast
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 27/07/2026
1/🫨ONC’s land+seafloor seismic network successfully detected an #earthquake 223 km west-southwest of Port McNeill, BC, on July 25 & notified critical infrastructure subscribers. The earthquake occurred around 11:33 am PT. @uvic.ca @innovation.ca
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 27/07/2026
Follow along as the ROV Mantis dives of the west coast of Vancouver Island during #ONCabyss from July 24 to August 5! #KnowTheOcean
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 24/07/2026
Unfortunately not this trip!
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Ocean Networks Canada @oceannetworks.ca · 23/07/2026
The #ONCabyss expedition returns to the NE Pacific w/ a dual-ship, two leg operation aboard M/V Canpac Valour + CCGS John P. Tully! From Jul 24–Aug 4, ONC will service the NEPTUNE observatory off Vancouver Island Watch the dives 🌊 bit.ly/4hoq8CT #KnowTheOcean CFI | FCI University of Victoria
Research vessels sailing on calm waters under a partly cloudy sky during a summer expedition.Research vessels sailing on calm waters under a partly cloudy sky during a summer expedition.
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