Deeper than anyone else: Interview to Yasuhiro Yamada, director of exploration of the drilling vessel Chikyu

Author: Beatriz Martínez-Rius (Sorbonne Université, Paris) Source: http://www.jamstec.go.jp Imagine a hole where you can fit 25 Eiffel Towers, one above the other. And now, imagine this hole under 2.500 meters of seawater. This is the drilling capacity of the Chikyu, the most advanced drilling vessel in the world. By dropping a pipe up to 10...