A core’s life

Here on expedition 372, we have completed coring! Coring is only scheduled for one site and we cored to just over 188m below the seafloor. During operations, it was all hands on deck for the 40 or so hours of coring (an extremely short coring session for typical JR expedition)! Every 30-40 minutes, the driller would announce “Core On Deck!” over the intercom and everyone would rush to the catwalk to receive the core from…