Since 2012, Ocean Networks Canada’s (ONC) community observatories in the Arctic and along the British Columbia coast have delivered high-tech ocean monitoring solutions directly into the hands of coastal communities.

In October 2018, a small ONC team traveled to British Columbia’s north coast to maintain and upgrade the Prince Rupert and Kitamaat Village observatories (above left) with the help of Ocean Dynamics marine vessel Crown Royal (above right) and a Seaeye Falcon remotely operated vehicle (below centre). In both locations, the old infrastructure (installed in April 2017) was replaced by newly designed platforms with new cameras to improve the reliability of video data.

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