Advantages: Looking for information about this vessel. Has anyone worked on this vessel? How was the atmosphere onboard?
Disadvantages: No personal experience yet, just gathering info.
The "Chikyu," failed to achieve its goal of penetrating 5,200 metres beneath the sea floor into the realm where two tectonic plates meet and cause enormous earthquakes. The Nankai drilling project was...
A Japanese drilling vessel has set a record by drilling more than 6,926 feet (2,111 meters) beneath the seafloor, deeper than ever before, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, the...
Drilling at a seabed fault is set to start off Miyagi Prefecture in the focal region of the Great East Japan Earthquake to clarify what triggered the March 11 tsunami. As of Monday, the Chikyu, a 56,7...