Craig Prosser (Transocean Driller, Canada) at the controls in the driller's shack on the rig floor.
Bob MacDonald (Canada, lower left), Earl Davis (Canada, upper left), Gary Austin (USA, upper right), and Keir Becker (USA, lower right) pose with the ACORK "head" that includes the pressure sensors, data loggers, and batteries.
Keir Becker (USA) and Lisa Crowder (ODP Yeoperson) inspect a piece of screened casing that contains one of the pressure monitoring ports.
Rig floor staff move the ACORK head to the rig floor.
Rig floor staff attach the ACORK head to the top of the casing before lowering it below the rig floor to the moonpool area, where the final hydraulic connections will be made.
Shannon Center (ODP Photographer) helps attach casing centralizers to the ACORK as it is lowered through the moonpool.
After 50 hours of hard work assembling the ACORK, Ray Corn (Cabett Services, USA; left) and Tom Pettigrew (ODP Operations Engineer) stand next to the top of the finished product before it is lowered through the moonpool and to the seafloor.
Gary Austin (USA) makes some final adjustments to the ACORK plumbing before it is lowered through the moonpool doors while Tom Pettigrew (ODP Operations Engineer) looks on.
Masataka Kinoshita (Japan) checks out the platforms that will be placed on top of the ACORKS to allow remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and submarines to land on them when they visit to download data and perform maintenance.
From left to right: Keir Becker (USA), Peter Flemmings (USA), and Earl Davis (Canada) prepare for their first fire and boat safety drill.
Information Services staff sailing on Leg 196. From left to right: Dwight Hornbacher (ODP database programmer), Michael Hodge (Marine Computer Specialist), Layne Westover (ODP Database Administrator), John Davis (Marine Computer Specialist), David Becker (ODP Manager of Information Services), and Phil Gates (ODP Supervisor of Network Support)