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Project Acronym: GYGY | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5011

ins.: 2009-03-01 01:00, 16 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Elgygytgyn
Elgygytgyn

Elgygytgyn: 2009-03-01

In a single day of fortuitous warm and calm weather, ...
The drilling platform rises above 2.02m of ice (at present) and ~170m of water at drill site D1.

In a single day of fortuitous warm and calm weather, 14 people from the science, drilling, and camp crews worked together to put up all of the drilling platform walls. This could have been a slow and potentially hazardous task if the temperature had been -40C (it was -5C at midday--the warmest temperature since December at the least) and if the wind had been blowing (it was calm for most of the day). Instead we completed 5 days' work in one day, and we now look forward to attaching the ceiling and roof-tarps tomorrow, among other tasks. We still wait for the crane to arrive from Pevek to lift the drill rig, casing, and other exceptionally heavy equipment to the platform surface, but we're formulating backup plans in case the crane does not arrive in time. Our camp lab space is now fully constructed and operational, and is now ready for the arrival of the first cores to begin multisensor core logging.