Experimental deep water drilling : Project Mohole

This film presents the construction and testing of the drilling barge CUSS I and depicts sea trials and experimental drilling operation of the barge off San Diego, California and Guadalupe Island. The film describes the purposes of Project Mohole, the attempt to drill through the earth's crust to the Mohorovicic discontinuity

• 1961

• Bascom, Willard N., 1916-
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• National Research Council (U.S.), AMSOC Committee
• National Science Foundation (U.S.)

• Chandler, Garth
• Ohanian, Chad

• Riedel, W.R.

• Global Marine Exploration Company

Producers and photographers: Garth Chandler, Chad Ohanian ; Project director: Willard Bascom

Narrator: William R. Riedel

1 film reel (30 min.) : sound, color ; 16 mm

two-dimensional moving image

Copyright Global Marine Exploration Company, 1961. Produced under the direction of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation

• Guadalupe Island (Mexico)
• San Diego (Calif.)
• United States

• CUSS I (Drill ship)
• Project Mohole

• Core Drilling
• Deep-sea drilling ships
• Earth sciences and state
• History
• Mohorovicic discontinuity
• Oceanography
• Scientific expeditions
• Submarine geology
• Underwater drilling

• video

• English

Los Angeles :, Global Marine Exploration Company

• Global Marine Exploration Company
• H. E. Ohanian

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2022-02-18