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The TRopIcal DEep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT) is a next-generation neutrino telescope planned in the "Hai-Ling Basin" of the South China Sea at a depth of about 3.5 km. Designed for world-leading sensitivity to high-energy astrophysical neutrinos of all flavours, TRIDENT will instrument a multi-cubic-kilometre volume of seawater with advanced photon-detection technology. As a key step toward its first construction phase, TRIDENT-Explorer 2024 (T-REX 2024), a single-string prototype for TRIDENT, was deployed at the future detector site to test fundamental technologies under realistic deep-sea conditions. Equipped with multiple digital optical modules, the prototype string operated continuously for four months at site, enabling studies of environmental conditions and detector performance over an extended period. In this work, we present the in-situ performance of the T-REX 2024 prototype string. The results provide valuable validation of key TRIDENT detector technologies and establish performance benchmarks for future detector deployment.
