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Early morning July 3 2008, the weather is
not so hot, a cold front came through in the night. It is raining.
The problem at 60 meters yesterday was in the interface layer
between the sand (from the last ice age) and the rock
below. The material there was very loose, and prone to seep into the
drill hole. The drill crew decided to bury the outer protective
shaft-tube into the rock --- slowly and patiently this procedure
took the entire morning, for only 1 meter of progress:
Thereafter drilling with only the inner drill
shaft could continue through the tertiary marl and sandstone with an
amazing speed of over 25 meters per hour!
At the end of Day 2, the drill had reached 168 meters as seen in
the core samples:
Tomorrow, Day 3, drilling continues........
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