Dale Pomraning (here with Penn State
grad student Kiya Rivermann) is our hot-water drill extraordinaire.
When we came back to the main camp at PIG, the camp manager, Dean
Einarsson introduced us as: “Dale Pomraning and Martin Truffer,
master driller and PI”. The way he said it seemed to refer to me as
master driller, so Dale's feelings were hurt. Dean corrected this the
next day with an official apology, which went along the following
lines:
“Dale invented drilling in 1801.
Before that people were mostly just digging in the sand with their
bare hands. Since then he has been involved in many projects. Some of
you might be familiar with Old Faithful? Since 1973, he has
continuously drilled in Antarctica. He is the master driller for the
PIG project. Martin does not know anything about drilling and mostly
just stands around.”
Dale accepted the apology.
this is good and facts are exact.
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