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First re-entry core crew - It was a historic occasion early in the morning on Monday, June 15, 1970, when the first re-entry procedure core was hoisted on the drilling floor of D/V Glomar Challenger. Engineers, drilling crew members and scientists hold pieces of the gray, hemipelagic sediment. Back row, left to right, Leon Blurton, Global Marine Inc. Project Officer for re-entry; Kenneth E. Brunot, DSDP Project Manager; and V.F. (Swede) Larson, DSDP Operations Manager. Second row, A.C. Wheeler, Max Stillwell, Dan Womack, Travis Rayburn and Homer Smith, of the drilling crew. Rayburn was drilling superintendent. Front row, Dr. Terry Edgar, DSDP Coordinating Staff Geologist, DSDP Chief Scientist Melvin N.A. Peterson, Charles Simon and Art Bedwell, of the drilling crew.

First re-entry core crew - It was a historic occasion early in the morning on Monday, June 15, 1970, when the first re-ent...