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Ocean observatories introduce demanding requirements and a variety of new complexities in the commissioning phase of a program. For the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative's Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) observatory program, the backbone telecommunication cables were first installed in 2011. The in-water nodes and shore terminal equipment were successfully installed in 2012,...