We’ve made a lot of progress over the past few days! Since the last post, we moved the drill and rod modules a short distance to start a new borehole. Our thinking is that it is better to focus on augering new holes that we can work with, rather than spend time trying...
Happy holidays from RAID camp at Minna Bluff! Pardon our long ‘radio silence’ while we got camp established and then ventured into the unknowns of experimental drilling. Right off the bat we had a long weather delay and then after early test drilling we discovered a...
RAID is officially back in action! After a long winter sleep we are now back at Minna Bluff for a new season of testing. Our lead drilling party left the US in early November and after many weather delays finally made it to McMurdo Station in Antarctica from New...
Our drilling crew is working hard to get things ready for the traverse to Minna Bluff. They removed tarps from the modules, fired up the generators, unpacked the ‘do-not-freeze’ items for re-installation, resupplying the shop, cut some new rig mats, laid in some new...
It’s been a long year since we were last on the ice with RAID. Our first field trials ended in January of this year, when we buttoned up for the coming austral winter. All of the modules sat quietly on snow berms outside of McMurdo Station while the RAID team members...
contributed by Jeff Severinghaus It is December 26th and a snowstorm has been piling up drifts around RAID camp for several days. Yesterday we celebrated Christmas with a dinner prepared by the amazingly talented Beth, Shannon, and Jonah. Despite being very far from...
