Sunrise patrol
It is easy to spend all day every day inside in the laboratory and so it is nice that we…
Final few days
We only have a few more days of operations left and just over two days in which to recover more…
Monsoon brewing
The clear sunrises that we have been enjoying for most of the expedition have suddenly become rather rare. Instead the…
Low Recovery Therapy
We have now changed out our drilling technology and are making progress towards our final target. The main problem is…
Bit change
We have now successfully recovered the top 200 m of the sediment at our new site and we are now…
This is a drill, this is a drill
One way that we know that the time is passing on board is our regular lifeboat drills. This week the…
Guardian of the Physical Property lab
After making significant progress yesterday we are now changing out drilling bit so that we can complete our penetration to…
In a slump
Not entirely sure where our friend the Indus Fan is hiding but at the moment we are spending our days…
Apple Crumble in the Tropics
For those of us raised in certain damp, cool countries in northwest Europe a nice plate of hot apple crumble…
Geochemists in the wild
We are now back in the business of describing core again after a long hiatus following the accidental loss of…