The JOIDES Resolution in Keelung, Taiwan. Photo taken from the hotel restaraunt.
Loading of 10.75- and 20-inch casing (background) and assembly/testing of logging-while-drilling (LWD) tools (foreground).
Scientist Nathan Hayward plays the bagpipes to celebrate the ship's departure from Keelung and the start of Leg 196.
Casey Moore (Co-chief scientist, USA) taking a tour of ACORK hardware and wearing his "JR in Taiwan" t-shirt.
Scientists Martin Hansen (Denmark), Denise Hills (USA), Sabine Hunze (Germany), and Harold Tobin (USA) enjoy another sunset over the Nankai Trough.
Leg 196 scientists meet outside the bridge to watch the sunset. From left to right: Sheila Peacock (United Kingdom), Lisa McNeill (United Kingdom), Sabine Hunze (Germany), Nathan Bangs (USA), Nathan Hayward (Canada), Dave Goldberg (USA), Denise Hills (USA), Harold Tobin (USA), Sean Gulick (USA), and Martin Hansen (Denmark).
Scientists Hitoshi Mikada (Co-chief scientist, Japan), Martin Hansen (Denmark), Adam Klaus (Staff scientist) and Sanny Saito (Japan) enjoy the Sunday barbeque.
Scientist Julien Broilliard (France) and Anadril LWD engineers Nophawit Thaiprasert (Thailand) and Swee Hong Ong (Malaysia) enjoy the Sunday barbeque.
Tom Pettigrew (ODP Operations Engineer; white hat) and Gary Austin (Packer engineer, USA) look on as the rig floor crew assembles 20-inch casing.
Scott Pederson (Transocean Operations Manager, kneeling), Tom Pettigrew (ODP Operations Engineer, white shirt) and Jerry Embry (Transocean Second Mate) prepare to attach the 20-inch casing to the reentry cone in the moonpool area below the rig floor.