A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

About A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

In 2015, a scientific expedition set out to be the first to ever drill to the mantle. This is an archival feed of the podcast mini-series documenting that attempt.

Publisher

Lucas Kavanagh

Category

science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Aug 2020

Latest episode

16 Aug 2020

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Aug 2020

   Chapter 4 - The Limits Of Life

   Ginny and Jason search for life, hundreds of meters below the seafloor.

2. 

   16 Aug 2020

   Chapter 3 - The Life Of A Core

   Follow a sample of rock as it is analyzed by the many scientists in the onboard labs of the JOIDES Resolution.

3. 

   16 Aug 2020

   Chapter 2 - The Theory That Changed Everything

   An episode consisting of three stores: an idea that no one believed, how to start the hole itself, and an expedition of tragedy and discovery.

4. 

   16 Aug 2020

   Chapter 1 - The JR Meets The Press

   Media attention reveals public concern over expedition 360 and a brief introduction to the JOIDES Resolution and a couple of the people who call it home.

5. 

   16 Aug 2020

   Prologue - The Quest To Touch The Mantle

   What is the mantle and why do we want to get our hands on it so badly? On this first episode we talk to chief scientist Henry Dick and staff scientist Peter Blum about the history leading up to expedition 360 and what we might learn from the next two months. Correction: this episode incorrectly states that seismic waves travel faster in denser rocks. The correct relationship is seismic waves travel faster in stiffer (more rigid and incompressible) rocks.

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