Following in the footsteps of Arne Saknussemm and Professor Otto Lidenbrock.
Recalling International Geophysical Year 1957-1958 & Project Mohole (Drill through the crust and sample the Mohorovic discontinuity.) This was a 1960s project that broke up over jealousies,etc.
The days when we did Big Science!
Bang zoom to the moon!
Must have seen a few catastrophe movies that started the same way...
The Blue Lagoon is doomed...
Reykjavik is doomed...
I hope the drill rig has a really, really good blowout preventer.
Drilling into a volcano…what could go wrong?
I once attempted to inspire some interest in using very deep 325 BHT Springer gas wells as preheat for combined cycle gas turbine plants. No interest. Too scary for all and too costly to case against very high bottom hole pressures. Probably nobody will drill that deep and high pressure again in what is left of my lifetime. Maybe a few are? I don’t check permits anymore.
The image comes to mind of someone shaking a can of soda and then popping the top. Hope they are using robots and no one is downstream.
All at once, unannounced, the drill steel blew a thousand feet into the air