Driller Dan Womack, of Global Marine Inc., a member of the GMI drilling teams aboard D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) since the Deep Sea Drilling Project became operational on August 11, 1968. He is holding a little owl that flew in to visit the research vessel for a rest during a storm which found the vessel at Site 439, a location more than 200 miles east of Honshu Island. Several other varieties of birds found refuge on the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) tall derrick during the storms which occurred during Leg 37. 1977
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