Refitted drilling ship sets sail

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Credit: IODP-USIO A year later than planned, the US research vessel _JOIDES Resolution_ has been rebuilt. The ship departed from Singapore for Hawaii on 25 January after two years of


overhaul and laboratory additions costing US$130 million (see _Nature_ 453, 7; 2008). With more than 20 years of research-cruise experience, she is the sole US ship in the Integrated Ocean


Drilling Program, which also includes the Japanese vessel _Chikyu_ and European platforms. The _JOIDES Resolution_ will drill cores in the bed of the equatorial Pacific to document extreme


climate-change events. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Refitted drilling ship sets sail. _Nature_ 457, 648 (2009).


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