During the Christmas and New Year Celebrations, the onboard baker carved water melons into a variety of fantastic shapes. Each…

Have you ever dug a hole in the sand at the seaside, and then tried to keep that hole from…

Bells and Horns rang out across the Pacific last night as the 123 people on board the JR celebrated the…

This is very thin section of gabbro (a rock from the lower ocean crust) taken from our first core which…

Nicole, Jean-Luc and Susan launched a satellite tracked drifter on Christmas Day (hence the frocks). It will enable us to…

Swimming smoothly along aside the JR this morning was a Mahi Mahi. These beautiful fish are characterized by their shimmering…

Christmas day on the JR has been memorable for several reasons: we succeeded in getting our very first cores from…

An underwater camera is helping us survey our drill site almost 5000m below the Pacific ocean. The film shows up…

Yes! The Hess Deep rift is 5000m below us. We are being held in position with the help of 12…

During a tour of the drill floor I came across this drillhead. They are attached to the end of the…