2008 January 6 (Day 19)
Weather: Fine but Cloudy
Site: C0006 (NT1-03) (33°01’ N, 136°47’ E)

ESCS coring continued to produce high-quality, high-recovery cores in moderately lithified sand, silt, and clay. However, large decrease in rate of penetration, increase in lithification, increase in time to cut cores resulted in decision to switch to RCB coring in hole C0006F. We are running the drill string to the seafloor while drifting down current to the location of C0006F.