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Expedition 401 is officially halfway through so how have the first four weeks of drilling gone the answer to that question is much much better than expected for a start we've been unbelievably lucky with the weather major storms can make drilling much harder or impossible and this time of year they are pretty common in the Atlantic in just a month there have been two storms large enough to have names and the JY resolution seems to have dodged both we also recovered our Target rocks at our first sight much shallower than anticipated making the required drilling time shorter we got more than 93% recovery in our initial hole and had time to drill a second just 20 M away the really good news is that the missing 7% in the first hole was recovered in the second so we have a complete record in the bag the third bonus is the sediment itself which is full of regularly repeating patterns sometimes you can see this as alternating colors but more commonly it's not visible to the naked eye however