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The third and final group of our on-ice team have made it to Crary Ice Rise – later than planned due to the weather challenges we’ve battled with this year.

We have successfully retrieved sediment core from beneath 523 m of ice at Crary Ice Rise, rotary coring with our custom-designed Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill.

We’ve risen to the Antarctic drilling challenge – our riser is in, connecting the ‘Big Rig’ at the surface of the ice to the bedrock 523m below.

While our drillers are hard at work moving forward towards geological drilling, our newly arrived science team are working at lightning speed to get prepared for when we have our…

Our hot water drillers have successfully melted a hole through the ice at Crary Ice Rise (CIR) right down 523 metres to the bedrock below! Not an easy task!

After weeks of weather delays preventing them getting out to our camp at Crary Ice Rise, on Christmas Eve the team received the best possible present - a Basler flight!

The team have begun to melt a hole through the ice to make our well. 

The team at Crary Ice Rise have lowered the ‘cellar’ into a 3m pit dug down into the ice.

Since arriving at Crary Ice Rise (CIR) our drill team have made great progress setting up the hot water drilling system inside the big orange drill tent, and assembling the…

Following some challenges with the weather, our hot water drillers and most of our AIDD (Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill) team have arrived at our deep-field scientific drilling site at Crary…