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Drilling at the Kuroshiro Current site very close to our destination port of Keelung (Taiwan): first core on deck!
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Nicole Januszczak, K.Y. Wei, Matt Salisbury, and Bernhard Diekmann are happy about the first core on deck and put the mud immediately to good scientific use!
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Simon Dean in front of the full core rack three days before the end of the leg. New 10-m long cores came up every 20 minutes and had to be run through several core-logging stations.
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The Leg 195 ODP technicians on the new walkway to the crane.
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Not much to do for the petrologists: Mette Kristensen and Massimo D'Antonio work on a puzzle while gray-green mud is being recovered and described.
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Visit of the Japanese Coast Guard at Site 1202. The patrol vessel Hateruma was not the only ship that was attracted by our drill ship operating in coastal waters.
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