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Field Notes

Dispatches from deployments, expeditions and the vessels that carry the array.

Written on deck, in the lab container or in the hours after a mooring is recovered. Field Notes are the operational record of the Bathys array: what we shipped, what broke, and what the water taught us.

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Field Notes Aug 18, 2026 2 min read

Field Notes: Deploying the Mariana Array at 6,000 m

Eleven days, fourteen moorings and one pressure hull that did not come back the way it left. The operational record of the deepest Bathys deployment to date.

Aiko Tanaka Read

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Field Notes

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Field Notes: Deploying the Mariana Array at 6,000 m