We made it to our first drill site! Because we are drilling about 1,600 feet (that’s about 500 metres) below the sea floor, it takes a few hours to get the drill string down to the sea floor to begin coring. After that, 31 ft (or 9.6 metre) sections of cores begin coming up every 40 minutes or so. The core is brought on deck, we let it sit for about 4 hours so it…
