Last night we achieved our first BIG success!
We drilled through the well-cemented tuff Surtsey’s hydrothermal system, and into the deeper deposits of the volcano below 160 m depth. We had nearly 100% recovery of consolidated tuff all the way down to 180 m – the final depth of the hole drilled in 1979. Our drillers pressed on through the night and recovered a possible sample of the seafloor beneath the volcano at ~185 m depth. The SE-02B hole is now terminated at 191.64 m.