D/V Glomar Challenger in the open sea
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This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987
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This 10,500-ton vessel is 400 feet long, has a beam of 65 feet and a loaded draft of 20 feet. She is owned by Global Marine, Inc., of Los Angeles, California, and is capable of conducting drilling operations in the open sea using dynamic positioning to maintain position over a borehole. Visible amidship is the drilling derrick which stands 194 feet above the waterline. Below (not visible) is the 20 x 22 feet center well in which is mounted the guide shoot and through which the bit, drill pipe and other tools are lowered during drilling operations. Forward of the derrick is the Global Marine-designed automatic pipe racker containing 24,000 feet of 5-inch drilling pipe. D/V Glomar Challenger is the drilling vessel for the Deep Sea Drilling Project which is managed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, of the University of California at San Diego, under a contract with the National Science Foundation.
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