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a car is on the docket no god. no radio no more weasel words. veda direct question simply prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. printout of speech and move down the freedom to cost. cape town south africa the i condemning few other of diesel electric research vessel the sport. 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 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 i could hear the rough and for some this is their first trip to the antarctic. 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. for winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the northern summer several times over the short summer season the academics approach the coast of the most remote. final voyage of the year. two 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. details navigational and operational plans are in place. 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 for 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 you'll freeze the standard winter outfit consists of shoes. 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 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. mechanics usually go 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. of course. it's almost twice the size of the other drivers have been many times. the route to the 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.

are. factors huge. the most difficult part is the. time. for the best and hope the truck. just want to be back. to work. great and you feel good once everything is done.

i feel that 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 now closes in on and talk to. the ocean appears. 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 contract for a very long distances. these pictures are from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle the maiden voyage of the

academic field of the first diesel electric ice ship to sail to antarctica. first trip was. a really good one. and then we were in the captain's. three of us having to say. yes i remember that clearly but we were having tea at the table was that. huge bang and fell off the table and the sea 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 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 always gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship. it's even written somewhere academics rather 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 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 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 is 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 for months 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 that rove 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 here the crews .

it's a really. something we have lots of cabbage. we have. here we have. some of the. grapes. we get back to. the. food.

carrots different types of. but according to stop the yokes 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 your.

plate it was a. very hard to take a plunge again there was a play by patton that had sex with that perfect hair cut. that. took. place. if. the people.

right. first right. and i think the church. there's plenty of water food fuel and even helicopters as well as people with a wealth of experience in extreme survival crews favorite joke is that if the

apocalypse should come the economic future of would be the best place to be. drinking water is drawn from the dark and there are two fresh water plants on board 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 far though all the stations remain quiet there are no guarantees yet that they're within range they are that all in all antarctica stations it are going to make a field of radio check please respond. normal as it is god please respond you. know a lot of reading you level for. now is the time to discuss the details plans for unloading all the 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 haven't been able to reach if. we couldn't get to the barrier. there was no way to. see. if. we haven't been able to. break through.

here there were about four miles of. we were breaking it down for. 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. from the russian. huge chunk. and almost the whole. of the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the whole. after that

there wasn't although a few containers of 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 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 suddenly started cracking there was a huge behind us over and stopped. the other way.

to 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 so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped. talk to. a very short window of time. the only reliable means of. 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 it was terrifying. taking its first flight.

and the ship off. the plane. from the station as usual. close to the ship. moved down to the ice. 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. station has.

caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here. as well as the patient of the crew for. the most convenient place.

to quickly. go to work 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 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. old. heads north again to africa after one hundred ninety four days. yet 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 home. play play. play play. play play. and play and play. and play.

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