IMG_8990

IMG_8990
Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf

Recovering a Gravity Corer after it's journey to the seabed. A length of pipe, containing a plastic tube (liner), with a heavy weight (bomb) on top is lowered at 80metres per second to just above the seabed (this cruise up to 5000m deep). There it is stopped, before it is allowed to punch into the seabed and, hopefully, come back out full of lovely sand and mud.