Expedition 372 is all about drilling holes into the seafloor to learn about the rocks below – whether it’s for Logging While Drilling (LWD) to learn about the geophysical properties of rocks in the subsurface or retrieving cores to look for the presence of gas hydrate and understand the relationship between gas hydrates and slowly moving landslides. But how does the JR actually do it? The seafloor is a long way down and now that…
