The rescue boat Thor from the Vestmannaeyjar Rescue Group transporting the 3 tons of equipment for the advance team. Conditions were not ideal but the rescue group volunteers really had a field day, getting all the loads on land at the peninsula on the north coast of Surtsey. A three man advance team went with the boat to Surtsey and arranged the equipment transported into five loads for helicopter, to fly onto the drill site on the SE side of the island