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Screen capture of live video from Wally the Crawler, 6 Jan 2011. (Click to enlarge.)
Live video from Wally the Crawler
Wally the Crawler was first deployed in September 2009 to a 871m deep cold seep site in one of Barkley Canyon's gas hydrate fields. His twin brother, Wally II replaced Wally in September 2010.
The worlds first Internet-operated deep-sea crawlers, designed and built by scientists at Jacobs University in Bremen Germany, are equipped with video cameras and sensors to measure temperature, pressure, water currents, salinity, methane and turbidity.
Is it Black?
When lights are turned on, you can watch live video from Wally the Crawler. But, the video here is usually dark, because we limit lights-on time to prevent light pollution in this sensitive deep-sea ecosystem. For the lights-on schedule, see our Calendar.
If there's nothing to watch here, you can always check our Wally the Crawler Playlist on YouTube for highlights.
Crawler Instrument Latest Readings
| Hydrates Crawler Instrument Readings (871m) | |||||||
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Franatech METS Methane Sensor |
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| Methane | -- | umol/l | Temperature | -- | °C | ||
Seapoint Fluorometer |
Seapoint Turbidity Meter |
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| Chlorophyll | -- | ug/l | Turbidity | -- | FTU | ||
Compass |
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| Heading | -- | ° | |||||
| Pitch | -- | ° | Roll | -- | ° | ||
ADM CTD |
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| Temperature | -- | °C | Pressure | -- | decibar | ||
| Conductivity | -- | mS/cm | Salinity | -- | psu | ||
