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The drilling platform arrives in Lixouri.

The mobile drilling rig is loaded on to the platform - it fits with centimetres to spare!

The drilling platform leaves Lixouri harbour for the first borehole location.

The drilling platform on location over borehole LIV-1.

The drill team unscrew a section of drill pipe as they collect another core.

The drilling operator controls the extraction of a section of drill pipe.

The drill team unscrew a drill section ready to pull up the next section of drill.

The drill team pull out a section of the drill to get another core.

A sediment core emerges from the cutting tube.

A core of sediment is carefully carried to be wrapped and boxed.

The cores are wrapped to prevent them drying out and crumbling.

The sediment cores boxed ready to be taken ashore.

Prof. Maria Triantaphyllou takes an initial sample from one of the cores.

A shell fragment from one of the cores that will allow us to date the sediment.

Prof. Maria Triantaphyllou examines an initial sample from one of the cores.

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Marine Core Drilling “A Tremendous Success”

13/08/2018 by Julian Rush

During five days of drilling at the end of July 2018 we successfully drilled 4 boreholes in the Gulf of Livadi and recovered 121m of sediment core – over double the amount that we had hoped for.… Read More

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Tax-deductible donations for US Tax Payers

US tax payers may now make tax-deductible donations thanks to our association with the American Fund for Charities.… Read More

2018 - Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) search for buried walls

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Summer 2018 field work is under way

The research team face their toughest conditions yet to try to date the huge landslip that blocked the sea channel between Paliki and the rest of Kefalonia… Read More