Mar 31 - Day 10

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James and Amela Got engaged today!!! Congratulations guys!!! That is really the coolest thing that happened to me today. Other than that I just got up at noon and helped run the long corer a few times.

We took one 90ft long core that fell out of the tube for some reason, and when we put the unit down the main tube is lined with pvc pipe, so we had an empty 90ft long pvc pipe that we were going to have to pull out and cut up and throw out (the tube has to come out to help reset the unit). We managed to save the tube by pulling it out and alongside the ship and shoving it back in.

We took a core again in the same spot and only got 90 ft of core mud for some reason, although we are pretty sure that the corer went allt he way into the mud. Oh well, another 12 hour shift down :) and we are getting really fast at our deployments and recoveries.

Congrats again Amela and James!!

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