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TV monitor showing the exact moment when the drill bit is lowered into the reentry cone. The reentry cone is placed on the seafloor and allows us to pull out of the hole to change drill bits and then be able to reenter the same hole in the seafloor. This also allows us to deploy other downhole experiments. The image on the screen is from the subsea camera system; the drill string with bit on the end is the long skinny pipe entering the picture from the top center, the reentry cone is the octagonal shaped cone, the cone is surrounded by seafloor mud, and the number 4333 is the depth of the camera system in meters. |