Posts Tagged ‘Deep Sea Drilling’

New World Drilling-Depth Record of Scientific Ocean Drilling

Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu sets a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the implementing organization for scientific expedition aboard theChikyu, announced this achievement on […]