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Project Acronym: SUSTAIN | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5059

ins.: 2017-08-06 02:00, 8 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Sustain
Sustain

Sustain: 2017-08-06

Drillers Justin Blouin, Steve Cole, and AJ Vecchiarelli, create the ...
Palsbaer Hut, Surtsey Volcano (credit Pauline Bergsten)

Drillers Justin Blouin, Steve Cole, and AJ Vecchiarelli, create the anchoring system for the drilling platform. The drill is then rotated on a spinner plate to an azimuth of about W2degreesS, the orientation of angled hole, SE-3, across the eastern crater, and attached to the platform. The PQ conductor hole at the top of the new vertical hole, SE-2, is drilled and cemented. The seawater sterilization system, which passes seawater pumped from the northern peninsula, through two consecutive UV sterilization lamps at a flow rate of about 2000 litres/hour, is now complete. There are now four 1000 litre storage tanks of sterilized seawater in reserve. The drilling fluid discharge line, which runs from the drill site to the eastern coast, is complete.