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Expedition result
Under harsh weather and ocean conditions and complex geological characteristics of the drill site, the CHIKYU attempted the first riser drilling in the history of scientific ocean drilling, and successfully drilled down to a depth of 1,603.7 meters beneath the sea floor at the site C0009 (at water depth of 2,054 meters).