It has been a busy and productive week out here in the middle of this big blue ocean. We have completed the casing for Hole 1383C and have been coring for the past couple of days – hence we are… Read the rest

Perhaps laying casing is not as dull as I was saying in an earlier blog when I was noting that this particular stage of our operations here on the Joides Resolution drilling ship was rather slow, as we have been… Read the rest

Remember picture day as a kid?  When you or your parent(s) picked out an outfit suitable for that picture that would immortilize your face for that school year?  Well, today was that day out here.  For our group pictures anyhow. … Read the rest

We have made it to the half-way point of the cruise – it is officially “Hump Day”!  Candy and cards are being distributed and there is a party planned for this evening in the lounge.  Yeah!  Somehow it both simultaneously… Read the rest

We finally have our first complete observatory installed!  Woo-hoo!  It was with great trepitation that we watched the final moments of this operation – when they released the tool holding onto the top of our well-head at the seafloor and… Read the rest