africa. research vessels. knowledge of the. ship. this is the very last several weeks to. very soon will be far out of range the ship is setting sail for a inaccessible area if there's any kind of emergency.

the russian ships. 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 in one thousand 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. nothing there. no one to relay messages except. winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the north and summer several times over the short summer season the academics approach the coast of the most remote. final voyage of the year to live almost a year's worth of food and fuel to the ice stations and take away seasonal crews and aircraft. which. are. a passenger ship. and an aircraft carrier. details

navigational and operational plans are in place. as 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 a stored in the freezer when the ship left some petersburg four months ago the weather was rainy and damp most of the time if the banks were to get did 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 your phrase the standard winter outfit consists of shoes. and

a winch eater. 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 on a driver mechanics they'll usually go through about four sets of clothing in a year. is to deliver fuel to the most remote and hard to reach stations. of course it's ok for work. of course.

it's almost twice the size of the other driver. many times. station is the world's most challenging trip one thousand five hundred kilometers from the coast in summer temperatures can reach forty below zero but the record is a staggering minus eighteen. this route will take about forty days. the trucks can only move very slowly they carry fuel tanks to the highest arctic station which is three and a half meters above sea level but oxygen levels there. funny.

the time. for the best and hope the truck. i feel even now i want to go as soon as i can. i bet you guys are the same at first . all that will come soon enough for the ship closes in on him talk

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

yes i remember that clearly but we were having tea at the table was jack. i felt a huge bang and fell off the table. spilled everywhere. it was a rock that wasn't shown on the chart. everything was fine in the end when the rocks position was mapped. 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 onto the white hot manifold there was a huge fire even though 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 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 sixth 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 home after six months but in the end he was away for eleven. ship and set sail later than planned 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. that'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 from ice it will the. that 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 to some off 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 that might just escape the ice but i'm not really sure. what a formidable field of has it 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. crew changeover in the engine room twenty two people are involved in here the crews . it's a really. something we have lots of cabbage. we

have. two hundred. here we have. some of the. grapes. back to. food.

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the crew will conduct a radio test. they are growing all antarctic. academic.

level. to discuss the details plans for. fuel and food and to evacuate the departing crews from. the action. but nothing can be taken for granted. we couldn't get to the barrier area there was no way.

we haven't been able to. break through. here there were about four miles of. we were. due to come through. we can't. 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 but. to the ice. it's a long way from the russian.

to the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the whole. after the well wasn't although a few containers with spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone. told. closer to the progress. sometimes. too once we had there we were unloading fuel when they started cracking so we have to. we even had 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 there was a huge behind. the other way. the critical. 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 zero so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped. me.

talk to. a very short window of time. the only reliable means of. see. receives it's 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 will take off. to use the plane. taking off from the station as usual. close to the ship the host of containers is moved down to the ice where 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. screaming get away. it was impossible. and the fuel

tanks were water was very close within just two metres 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 in store for us. the waves that 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 common place 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 ends 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.

the academic field heads north again to africa after one hundred ninety four days. yet the crew has been out on the open ocean. back at the cape town seaport there's still another twenty eight days or so. but after antarctica even here feels almost like. put it on your cultural phenomena like. the face i think you know.

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