After several days of constant core coming up, our drillers had a challenge down the hole, so they had to pull out the drill pipe, sort the issue, and run the pipe again.
That’s a lot of pipe, through the ice and down through our hole in the bedrock.
It’s the nature of drilling in Antarctica, where the freezing conditions push our gear to the limit.
The team are now back to pulling core, as we drill down through time into the geological archive of sediment hidden under the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise.
