technology innovation all the least of around russia. africa. and. this is the very last several weeks to. very soon will be far out of range. of inaccessible area if there's any kind of emergency no one to provide any kind of help. the russian ships. 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 ark of them explore the rough 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.

no one to relay messages except. antarctic autumn winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the northern summer several times over the short summer season the academics will approach the coast of the most remote. final voyage of the year. years 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. detailed navigational and operational plans are in place but 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 petersburg four 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 closer kept ice until they needed to get out of there your phrase the standard winter outfit consists of shoes. of cheetah. oh this one is for winter.

the other one is a mid season coat. and this one's for special occasions because it's so much better this time for a look they also have a vest. way 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 drive the mechanics. through about four sets of clothing in a year. is to deliver fuel to the most remote and hard to reach stations. is it 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 eighty nine. this route will take about forty. 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 equate to an altitude of five thousand meters anywhere else. mainframe. all those. factors huge gropes

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. and that's actually good 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 he wanted to be over soon as possible you just want to be back home and that's it so you get back home and in time he stopped feeling a strong desire to. the work is difficult but the guys are great and you feel good once everything is done. i feel it even now i want to go as soon as i can. all that will come soon enough for now closes in on 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. these pictures are 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 but we were having tea at the table was. there a. bang and fell off the table. spilled everywhere. it was a rock wasn't shown on the chart. everything was fine in the end and 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 on to the white hot money 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. it's even written somewhere the academic of 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 talk 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 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. there's been emptied into a hollow there's tons of ice all over the place and the ships are 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. event 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 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 more. crew changeover in the engine room twenty two people are involved in here the cruise. really. something we have lots of cabbage.

we have. here we have. some of the. grapes. we get back to. carrots different types of.

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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. well. we haven't been able to reach if. we couldn't get to the barrier area there was no way to push through the.

tough. recently. we haven't been able to. break through. years ago here there were about four miles of. we were breaking it down. from mother nature. to come through. we can't cut through

so much faster. now and last year we couldn't get through when it was just it was more than three meters deep then about a meter of snow on top of that they had no choice but. to the ice where the indian arctic mission usually. it's a long way from the russian. huge chunk. and almost the whole. was lost to the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left they had to conserve fuel for the whole. enter after that well wasn't although a few containers of spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone is anxious about what further surprises no hold for now though the. closer to the progress station. sometimes surprises too once we have that there

we were unloading fuel when they started cracking so we have 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 progress stations. was massive but it suddenly started cracking. behind us. and stopped. the other way. the progress the critical. pull back and wait for. it turned out that the

progress of 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. when. i. talked to. only be reached during a very short window of time. the only reliable means of getting here is by. c. . 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 on which to land. still remember the. old from a cracking ice book imagine it lifts off the ice cracks right after it. and the ship. from the station. close to the ship. 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. i heard a huge noise out there i went to check it out it was the shore. screaming . and the fuel tanks were 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 the other way it would have caused a lot of trouble now we'll see what the. that caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here.

too quickly. 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 for more than half a year the crew has been out on the open ocean. back of the cape town seaport there's still another twenty eight days or so to petersburg but after antarctica even here feels almost like.

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