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The ‘core catcher’ and the sample collected in the nose cone of the sediment corer. The core catcher (the thing with the shiny metal fingers) is placed at the base of the corer and allows sediment to enter but not to exit. In this case there was a hard layer of volcanic gravel that stopped the corer from going very far into the sediment. We did recover a nice sample of the surface sediments and some volcanic glass.

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