8/11-14

Position: 89 06.2' N, 99 36.4' W, temperature - 30° C, air pressure 1018 hPa, wind 14 knots from the NW. Ice drift 0.3 knots towards northeast. Shooting seismic reflection all day. We are passing the projected outcrop level of the major unconformity on the Amundsen Basin side of Lomonosov Ridge. Deployed the sediment corer in 1460 meter water depth. Returned empty with only stains of mud in the core cutter - must have hit something really hard at the sea bed. At midnight, we
deployed the light corer to obtain undisturbed surface sediment for the Bjerknes Centre, water depth 2006 meter. Recovered 30 cm. of core.