The units are probably pounds and not psi. psi is a pressure, which is a force over an area. They probably measure tension in the cable as a force. Woke up this morning and we are still stuck, anchored to the bottom by our piston corer. Has been 10 hours. There was a fog around the ship after a week of sun, but it is burning off. Not sure if there is a way to just release the corer or if they will have to just raise the tension until the corer comes out or the cable breaks.

This may cost us the survey of the folding above the Oak Ridge fault (and the shallow part of the fault itself). It also costs being able to come up with the high-resolution climate record before the mid Pleistocene transition. But, we did get a couple of short piston cores (1 m and 1 1/2 m) and a series of gravity core that show the record is likely preserved here. We will have to wait until the International Ocean drilling program drills here (assuming they do) to recover that record. Is probably relevant to how the climate might change with all the changes in the atmosphere that are now ongoing: it is important to know the states of climate that the earth is capable of.

The good news is that we have already collected abough high-resolution, high quality seismic reflection data that the site survey for IODP may be adequate.

Chris