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Project Acronym: HSDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5027

ins.: 2003-04-02 02:00, 23 yrs ago
By: Scientists
Category: Hawaii_
Hawaii_

hawaii: 2003-04-02

I'm afraid that transmission of the most recent update (#3 ...
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I'm afraid that transmission of the most recent update (#3 distributed earlier this week) was delayed a bit by the images. The current status is that the equipment left the west coast late last week and is now on its way to Hawaii. For those of you into the details, this morning the barge was reported at: 36 57N 124 17W We did encounter a minor scheduling glitch with offloading - the stevedores are otherwise engaged on our planned offloading date so we will be offloading the barge on April 15 rather than April 10 as initially planned. Site prep is pretty well complete and we will begin setting up support facilities during the next week or so. Bruce Howell, our "Engineer Extrodinaire" will arrive next week and oversee the last details of site prep, crane rigging, trucking arrangements and local crew interviews. Although we were concerned about availability of a local crew - because the island's geothermal company was planning to drill several new holes this year - they unexpectedly shut down their drilling early and it looks like we will have a number of experienced drilling hands to choose from for our relief crew.