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Project Acronym: DSDDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5017

ins.: 2010-12-01 23:00, 15 yrs ago
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Category: Dead Sea
Dead Sea

Dead Sea: 2010-12-02

Close to 400 meters. Drilling continues last night as levels ...
Project PIs waiting to board the drilling rig. From left to right - Norbert Nowaczyk, Achim Brauer, Steve Goldstein, Emi Ito, Dennis Nielson, Zvi Ben-Avraham, Science Reporter Eitan Haddok, Vessel Operator Ofir Zuckerman.

Close to 400 meters. Drilling continues last night as levels of H2S dropped beneath dangerous levels. The clay zones encountered are hard and it is difficult to get it out of the core-catchers. A thin gravel layer was drilled between 365 and 369 mbsf according Drilling Operations Manager Beau Marshall. Yesterday morning there was a small earthquake in the northern Dead Sea (3.5 om the Richter Scale) not too far from the drilling site.