drilling team member Lalo aguilar working on inner tubes during an expedition 501 wireline core drilling operation aboard the ‘Liftboat robert’ platform. — ap
DEEP in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States.
Nearly 50 years ago, a US government ship searching for minerals and hydrocarbons in the area drilled into the seafloor to see what it could find.
