Drill and Crew Begin Search for Insight into Bay Crater
It's a busy construction season, even for an 80-foot-tall rig headed for some late-summer work along the Chesapeake Bay.
The crew and drill rig operated by Major Drilling Inc. was greeted by a handful of U.S. Geological Survey researchers when it arrived at the Eastern Shore on Saturday, a few days late to start drilling on Sunday. The USGS is participating in a $1.3 million international project to drill nearly 1.4 miles below Cheriton to understand the catastrophic explosion that carved out a 56-mile-wide crater buried below the Chesapeake Bay.