How long will it take to get to the rock at the bottom?

It’s happened today. I saw the drillers here in Christchurch before they left a couple of weeks ago. The drill rig is out on the ice shelf, they’ve drilled with hot water through the ice shelf. They’ve put in a column of steel down to the sea bed, and they are just starting to get the first of the sediments off the sea floor. That’s taken out very carefully, that sediment, that mud that is sitting on the top has a story to tell, so that’s carefully extracted before you start drilling through the harder rock below. And three months, three months is the time span. Remember that it’s an ice shelf it’ll move, and probably over that three months. It will move somewhere like 30 meters, 25 meters, sideways as it moves out to sea as the ice shelf moves. So the whole drilling process has to cope with that as well as changes every day in the tide, because it goes up and down and that doesn’t happen in other places.