Glomar Challenger
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Glomar Challenger (Glomar: Glo bal Mar ine) was an American research vessel .
history
Construction of the ship began in Orange (Texas) in 1967 and was operated by Global Marine Inc. (now GlobalSantaFe Corporation ), which specializes in sea drilling . From 1968 it was used in the Deep Sea Drilling Project . The ship was decommissioned in 1983 and then scrapped. Some parts of the ship are still kept at the Smithsonian Institution .
During her service life, the Glomar Challenger was used for a total of 624 examinations at various locations in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and the Red Sea . 19,119 drill cores were recovered. The recovered and stored drill cores would be put together over 97 km long. The deepest borehole is given as 1741 m. The maximum operating water depth was 7044 m (Leg 60 Site 461A). The recovered drill samples delivered u. a. Confirmations for Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift .
reception
The ship is also mentioned in the science fiction novel The Last Day of Creation by Wolfgang Jeschke . Since 1988 it has given its name to the Glomar Challenger Basin in the Antarctic Ross Sea .
literature
- Kenneth J. Hsü : A ship revolutionizes science: the research trips of the Glomar Challenger , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-455-08752-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Global Marine Inc. (Howard Hughes Glomar Explorer in Vignette). Retrieved November 27, 2017 .