Journal Entry

There isn't much new information today as we have been spending time getting ready to leave for the field tomorrow. We did leave station for a while today and head out to the sea ice to practice using the drill. This is a hot water drill that uses hot water and gravity to make a hole in the ice. We will be making 3in holes 35m deep to drop our explosives. We used a few sizes of bits today which you will see from the pictures. You can see more pictures in the photo gallery.

http://www.polartrec.com/ptrecgallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=18126 Luke enlarging the hole using the middle sized drill bit.