2007 December 21 (Day 3)
Weather: Cloudy
Site: C0004 (NT2-01I) (33°13’ N, 136°43’ E)

We cored with ESCS and HPCS to 135 meters below seafloor, and determined that based on core quality and coring conditions, that refusal had been achieved. We then determined to pull out of hole C0004C and relocated to C0004D for RCB coring. RCB coring has just commenced.

Successful coring of the upper section of C0004C with good quality and good recovery in all cores. Cores are being processed and sampled for chemical, microbiological, geological, and geophysical measurements. Processing of HPCS and ESCS is progressing well, sampling, measurement, and description of cores is moving quite well.