From left to right: Manuel (Jun) Cabusa (Philippines), Romy De La Cruz (Philippines), and Rueben Francisco (Philippines) proudly pose next to the casing running tool (cylindrical metal with the white strip on the right of the picture). Manuel, Romy, and Rueben are a few of the floormen, roughnecks, and roustabouts who perform the essential, extremely hard work that gets accomplished on the rig floor.
Andadrill Logging-While-Drilling (LWD) engineers and drill floor crew assemble the LWD tools before lowering them through the moonpool, down to the seafloor, and into the reentry cone on the seafloor (~4700 m below sea level). We used these tools to log the properties of the rocks surrounding the borehole from the seafloor to ~750 meters below the seafloor.
Eddie Wright (ODP Operations Manager), Nophawit Thaiprasert (Anadril LWD engineer, Thailand), and Burney Hamlin (ODP Lab Officer) watch the real-time logging (Measurement-While-Drilling [MWD]) data that are being sent from the tools downhole via mud pulses through the seawater inside the drill pipe.
The real-time Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) screen showing a display of the pressure pulses sent from the tools downhole (upper left), the data transmission being decoded (lower left), as well as a display of the drilling depth information (lower right), and a display of the various parameters (upper right). This is only the second time MWD technology has been utilized during an ODP leg.
From left to right: Logging scientists Masanori Ienaga (Japan), Nathan Bangs (USA), and David Goldberg (USA) working on LWD/MWD data in the downhole logging lab.
Warner Bruckmann (left; Logging Scientist, Germany) and Eddie Wright (right; ODP Operations Manager) discuss drilling operations while waiting to observe the reentry cone and casing lowered through the moonpool.
The reentry cone and casing is lowered with the drill string (orange pipe) through the moonpool in the center of the ship.
Leg 196 scientists gather on the bow for the ritual group photography. From left to right: Lisa McNeill (UK), Martin Hansen (Denmark) Sheila Peacock (UK), Adam Klaus (with baseball cap), Julien Broilliard (France), Denise Hills (USA), Sylvain Bourlange (France), Nathan Bangs (USA), Sean Gulick (USA), Harold Tobin (USA), Sabine Hunze (Germany), Nathan Hayward (Canada), and Warner Bruckmann (Germany, front with sunglasses).
From left to right: Jurie Kotze (ODP Electronics Technician, South Africa), Lisa Crowder (ODP Yeoperson), and Nathan Bangs (Logging Scientist, USA) and other scientists enjoy the barbeque, good weather, and a break from working in the labs!
Catemar Cooks Fernando Marques (left; Portugal) and Antonio Barao (right; Portugal) enjoy being able to work outside for the Sunday barbeque!