2008 January 9 (Day 22)
Weather: Fine but Cloudy
Site: C0006 (NT1-03) (33°01’ N, 136°47’ E)

The first core from C0006F came on deck at 3:55 AM this morning with 22.7% recovery in silt and silty clay. We continued RCB coring through to 457 meter below seafloor in silty mudstones. The core material recovered consists of 5-15 cm long intact pieces with well preserved textures and structures interspersed with fragmented rubble and fractured material. Recovery is generally low, and quality quite variable, primarily related to rotary coring in highly fractured rock.