cape town south africa the i condemning few other of diesel electric research vessel the sport. the flag to show other pilot is aboard an officer with unrivaled knowledge of these waters he still has to ship out into the atlantic and then returns to dock. this is the very last opportunity for several weeks to call home with a cell phone very soon all mobiles will be far out of range the ship is setting sail for a vast and inaccessible area if there's any kind of emergency they'll be no one to provide any kind of help. the russian ship sails self to the land of eternal ice

and snow to antarctica. the first officer will now explain the code of conduct on board there are twenty three passengers aboard the i couldn't make sure they're off and for some this is their first trip to the antarctic zone but for one passenger it's become a familiar journey this is the twenty sixth time he's followed this route. back a nine hundred sixty four. trip we went. who was the first time i felt so acutely just how far away. ten days and nights of ocean like. this is. as you can see there is nothing there. any of the

ships just icebergs. have to look out for. no one to relay messages except. as a miles away now. much antarctic autumn winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the northern summer several times over the short summer season the academic field will approach the coast of the most remote. final voyage of the year they must deliver almost a year's worth of food and fuel to the ice stations and take away seasonal crews and aircraft. with. a tanker or. a passenger ship and an aircraft carrier. detailed navigational and operational plans are in place but also has arrived and no one can

ever know just what to expect from antarctica. always comes up with surprises. you have to keep your eyes open because there's always something going wrong if it actually goes well for too long i start to worry there's no way antarctica will let you go on like that without incident it's unpredictable. bags containing polar clothing are stored in the freezer when the ship left some months ago the weather was rainy and damp most of the time if the banks were to get . they may rot in a warm hold to keep them in optimum condition the clothes are kept on ice until they need to get out of there you'll freeze the standard winter outfit consists of shoes. of cheetah. this one

is for winter. the other one is a mid season coat. and this one's for special occasions the coats are much better this time for a look they also have a vest. way to turn around but did they listen to what we said no they didn't one of the straps to be crossed otherwise they slip off your back. where we were at the same comments every single year but it's not so often that they put things right. most of the passengers are driving mechanics. through about four sets of clothing in a year. is to deliver fuel to the most remote and hard to reach stations. is ok. of course it's ok for work not your wedding. of course it's a little loose it's almost twice the size of you the other drivers have been many

times. challenging trip one thousand five hundred kilometers from the coast in summer temperatures can reach forty. but there. is a staggering minus. forty . the trucks can only move very slowly they carry fuel tanks to the highest arctic station which is three and a half thousand meters above sea level but oxygen levels there equate to an altitude of five thousand meters anywhere else. mainframe. all those. factors huge

ropes that can seem strong can break and snap in freezing temperatures the most difficult part is the route itself seems endless ages just to cover about sixty kilometers. and that's actually going you can do anything you can make the time go faster speed up the process you just pray for the best and hope the truck will fail you want it to be over soon as possible you just want to be back home and. say you get back home and in time you start feeling a strong desire to. the work is difficult but the guys are great and you feel good once everything is done. even now i want to go as soon as i can. say mcpherson.

will come soon enough for now. and talk to. the ocean appears very come on the bridge of a captain the navigation officer and two helmsmen the crew changes on the way. the crew watches reinforced you have to be twice as vigilant the closer you get to antarctica. for. the region is still under explored and. very long distances. to. these pictures from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle the maiden voyage of the academic field off the first diesel electric ice ship to sail to go. first trip was good a really good one. remember we were in the captain's room. having.

yes i remember that clearly we were having tea at the table was a. huge bang and the car fell off the table. everywhere. it was a rock that wasn't shown on the chart. everything was fine in the end and the rocks position was mapped. here it is. the one hundred eighty seven obstacle course. the ship literally went through a trial of fire and ice. it was about four pm during a tea break we had cabbage pies that day i still remember that and then it all

happened. this missile. fire broke out in the engine room one of the pipes burst and fuel oil spill down on to the white hot many fold there was a huge fire even now i feel uncomfortable when i hear a fire alarm to change the settings on all our clocks back at home because i can't stand the noise of. the ship went through thick and thin it's the best ship in the whole antarctic gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship. somewhere academic sure that if was the only ship in the world able to reach the north pole alone unaided by an ice breaker who would go to the polls quite often now but we still have a lot of respect for the arctic region it's

a really harsh environment and there are nuclear icebreakers there antarctica is even worse besides we can't use nuclear icebreakers antarctica is much worse than the arctic region more severe this is my twenty six trip to antarctica and i've already been to the arctic twenty five times antarctica is much more interesting this trip is more fascinating and extensive it takes at least six months to get there the arctic region is like a relaxing walk. only takes about a month. in one thousand nine hundred five once headed for and talked to some of his plan was to be up to six months but in the end he was away for eleven. ship and set sail later than. it was when the crew reached antarctica it cut through the ice close to the shoreline but they soon discovered that they were too close to crews reaction was well coordinated and fast.

as always happens in the weather changed abruptly the ice around the ship stuck together and the vessel became trapped. imagine a sugar bowl. there's been emptied into a hollow there's tons of ice all over the place and the ships just not able to move we fought against it for many days trying to move out of there then the wind came up and the ice blocks started to shift to slightly so we were able to work our way through the coastal ice belt a little it almost cracked the whole we tried to head for the open sea but it was already impassable by that time before my fit well with the. vet was when the crew realized they'd be spending winter aboard the ship there's no way to help a vessel that stuck in an ice trap and so some of had to stay just where it was until spring their ship was weak in fact three times weaker than the academic field

of this one it might just escape the ice but i'm not really sure. what a formidable the field of has never been trapped in ice not even once it's very powerful and when circumstances get really difficult we can rely on it we believe its power will help and save us more. crew changeover in the engine room twenty two people are involved in. the cruise. it's a really. something we have lots of cabbage. we

have. to be. we have. some of the. grapes. we get back to. the. food.

carrots different types of. but according to stump the yolks going off you have to turn them every two weeks. they may get a little dry at the stations because of the low humidity but they will never go bad . on you or. syria and the neighborhood is washington stumbles its way through the syrian crisis there are those who see this horrific conflict as a perfect opportunity to topple assad then move on to turn around at the same time iran in the us are said to engage in direct talks so what's ahead more conflict or

the start of pragmatism compromise. unexplored and talk to go what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. along with now i only go to the duchess. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live want to eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica.

the. war is probably the most complex of human activity. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention. there are. people. reading. this. shoots my brother in the leg not intentional. because times four in the morning even the best. are going to make mistakes this whole idea of brotherhood. in. this context has absolutely no place.

there's plenty of food fuel and even helicopters as well as people with experience in extreme survival crews favorite. would be the best place to be. drinking water is drawn from the dock and the right to fresh water. heat from the main engine is used to distill seawater to remove the salt. to their destination today the crew will conduct a radio test so all the stations remain quiet there are no guarantees yet that they're within range they are growing all antarctica stations is are going to make it feel that our radio check please respond. please respond. reading you level.

now is the time to discuss the details plans for unloading fuel and food and to evacuate the departing crews from the stations the action plan was devised some time ago but nothing can be taken for granted in antarctica. we couldn't get to the barrier. there was no way to. see.

if. we hadn't been able to. break through. here there were about four miles of. we were breaking it down. to come through. we can't cut through. now and last year we couldn't get through when it was just. more than three meters deep then about a meter of snow on top of that they had no choice. from

the russians. there was a. huge chunk of. the ocean. out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the whole. after that well wasn't although a few containers with spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone. told. the progress. sometimes. too once we had there we were unloading fuel when they started cracking so we had to. we will have to cut it a little it was an emergency and we had to get off quickly it was impossible to turn back because that was close by lots of things happened.

we had to wait half an hour at the station. was massive but it suddenly started cracking. behind us over and stopped. the other way. to pull back and wait for. it turned out that the progress station frontal activity was at its peak for ten days and there was intense and heavy snowfall visibility was practically nothing and the flight was so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped.

by. talk to. a very short window of time. the only reliable means of. see. progress station receives its full of food and fuel supplies. some unexpected events. is downloaded using a special antenna this vital information is used not just to plot the ship's course but to select the right block of ice on which to land. still

remember the fourteen lifting off from a cracking ice book imagine it lifts off the ice cracks right after it it was terrifying. taking its first flight. and assembled beside the ship from where it will take off. to use the plane. from the station as usual. close to the ship the host of containers is moved down to the ice when the plane is disassembled. that's when the waves came. it started swinging all the way out. i was doing something down in my cabin. sudden i heard a huge noise out there i went to check it out it was the shore i. started

screaming get away. it was impossible. and the fuel tanks were the water was very close within just two meters so we had that aircraft up fast and get it onto the hatch cover thank god we did it gone the other way it would have caused a lot of trouble now we'll see what the. station has. caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here.

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from here. to the. nothing can be left until tomorrow because at any moment conditions might change suddenly and without warning. in the northern hemisphere this kind of wind would be called a hurricane but here it's just a regular storm extreme weather like this is commonplace in antarctica. as soon as their work was done a huge storm rolled in with winds of up to thirty two meters per second the ship has no choice but to wait until. it may take a few days though. the main tasks have been completed.

things went smoothly surprisingly it was over very fast i didn't expect that. game to africa hundred ninety four days. yet the crew has been out on the open ocean. of the cape town seaport this still. even here feels almost like oh. so we leave the people.

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