NeMO 2001 Video Clips

This page presents a selection of video highlights from the NeMO 2001 research expedition to the New Millennium Observatory (NeMO) at Axial Volcano, a seamount 300 miles offshore from the Oregon coast where a submarine volcanic eruption occurred in January 1998. To view a video, just click on one of the links below the "thumbnail" views. All of the video clips are in MPEG format and are available in two sizes. The small sized clips will load faster and may play more smoothly than the larger ones. To the right of each thumbnail is a brief description of the video clip. Most of the video clips on this page are played at 2 times normal speed.

Small/MPEG - 0.5 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.3 Mb	<-- Black smoker plumes billowing out of a 10-m tall sulfide chimney at the Vent 1 site at south Cleft. This vent is over 300 degrees C.	Small/MPEG - 0.8 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.2 Mb	<-- ROPOS deploys a high- temperature probe at south Cleft which will record the temperature of this vent every hour for over a year.
Small/MPEG - 1.0 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.2 Mb	<-- Sulfide worms frolic in warm vent fluids at the ASHES vent field.	Small/MPEG - 0.9 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.0 Mb	<-- A deepsea anenome in the ASHES vent field.
Small/MPEG - 0.9 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.5 Mb	<-- This remotely interactive fluid sampler was deployed at Cloud vent and linked into the NeMO Net two-way communication system.	Small/MPEG - 1.1 Mb Large/MPEG - 3.0 Mb	<-- ROPOS deploys a set of larval settling plates at the ASHES vent field to collect juvenile recruits of vent organisms.
Small/MPEG - 0.8 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.4 Mb	<-- Close up of the eye of an octopus in the ASHES vent field.	Small/MPEG - 1.1 Mb Large/PMEG - 3.0 Mb	<-- An amazing chain of limpets that are linked together to form a kind of bridge at a vent at ASHES.
Small/MPEG - 0.5 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.4 Mb	<-- The NeMO Net camera in front of a tubeworm bush at the Bag City vent after a year on the seafloor, just before it was recovered.	Small/MPEG - 1.2 Mb Large/MPEG - 3.0 Mb	<-- The NeMO Net camera transmitted pictures and temperatures from seafloor to shore from July 2000 to July 2001.
Small/MPEG - 0.5 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.4 Mb	<-- This is a new anhydrite chimney named Vixen that was discovered this year in the Coquille vent field.	Small/MPEG - 1.2 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.7 Mb	<-- Close up of the gas-tight sampler taking a sample at Vixen. The temperature of this vent is 312 degrees C.
Small/MPEG - 0.9 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.4 Mb	<-- A pool of hot buoyant vent fluid trapped under an overhang "flange" on the chimney at Hell vent (ASHES). The bottom surface of the hot fluid reflects like a mirror.	Small/MPEG - 0.7 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.5 Mb	<-- The side of a lava pillar within the 1998 lava flow. The horizontal ribs are remnants of lava crusts that formed while the lava drained out.
Small/MPEG - 0.9 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.0 Mb	<-- A deepsea vent spider at ASHES.	Small/MPEG - 0.4 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.0 Mb	<-- A rattail fish is caught in the act while enjoying the warmth of Cloud vent.
Small/MPEG - 0.9 Mb Large/MPEG - 2.6 Mb	<-- A view of the sulfide chimney at Mushroom vent (ASHES) which is actively venting and is covered with tubeworms.	Small/MPEG - 0.7 Mb Large/MPEG - 1.4 Mb	<-- A row of active chimneys called T and S spires located in the CASM vent field.