An oddly incomplete article is over at the Tenerife News Online. Despite its revealing title of An Interview with Professor Searle - MICHAEL - IN NEED AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH - WHO DID THE INTERVIEW ETC , Searle provides some interesting commentary on the first expedition of the RSS James Cook..
The drill could produce some good samples of mantle rock, but as I said the sediment cover in many places was thicker than we expected. We are therefore thinking about writing a proposal for funding to bring a larger drill here to penetrate deeper. But don't worry, the mantle substance at the bottom of the sea is a type of rock, too. So... no dramatic effects there...The water in the Atlantic is not going to drain out!"
Whew, what a relief! I was worried for a moment there.
and I was hoping that here was a way we could offset rising sea levels...darn it, now we'll have to keep those pesky glaciers frozen.