communism more than anything doesn't matter there's half truth about shooting soviet gardeners and burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the u.s. government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion.

cape town south africa the i condemn it few of those diesel electric research vessels the sport. the flag to show other marine 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 sail south 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 limit for 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 in nineteen sixty four after. 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 other ships just icebergs. no one to relay messages except. as a miles away now. it's 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 academics will 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. 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 and 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 wet. 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. off when cheetah. 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 of the 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 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.

is it ok does it look fine 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 to antarctica 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 eighty nine. 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 twenty five thousand meters

anywhere else. all those. factors huge. in freezing temperatures the most difficult part is the route itself. you can do anything you can make the time go faster the process you just pray for the best and hope the truck will fail you want it to be possible you just want to be back. so you get back home and in time. the work is difficult but the guys are great and you feel good once everything is

done. even now i want to go can't. come soon enough. and two helmsmen crew changes on the way. 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 contrast for a very long distances. to deal.

with these pictures of 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 good a really good one. remember we were in the captain's room three of us having to say. yes i remember that clearly but we were having tea at the table was a. huge bang and the cup 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 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 always gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship.

it's even written somewhere academic sure that if was the only ship in the world able to reach the north pole alone unaided by an ice breaker we 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 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 or 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 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 the sum 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. about a formidable fielder 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 crew .

it's a really gorgeous. thing we have lots of cabbage. we have. here we have. some of the. grapes.

carrots different types of. but of course it's to stop 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 . when you put the.

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see. above the field of there's plenty of water food fuel and even helicopters as well as people with a wealth of experience in extreme survival the 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 dock and there are two fresh water plants on board heat from the main engine is used to distill seawater to remove the salt. way 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 there all in all antarctica stations are

going to make it feel that of radio check please respond. please respond to you. 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 area there was no way to push through.

tough. recently. we haven't been able to. break through a few. 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. ice. huge chunk of. the hole. was lost to the ocean. for out of ten fuel tanks were left they had to conserve fuel for the whole. well wasn't although a few containers with 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 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 happening. we had to wait half an hour at the progress station. was massive suddenly started cracking there was a huge behind us over and stopped. the other way. on the progress the critical factor. 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 zero so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped. during a very short window of time. the only reliable means of getting here. 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 will take off. from the station as usual. close to the ship. moved down to the ice but 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 . but 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. that caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here. as well as the patience of the crew.

comes into play. too quickly.

from here. to the. 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 may take a few days though. the main tasks have been completed. surprisingly it was very fast i didn't expect that. hundred ninety four days. yet the crew has been. back of the cape town seaport this still. even here feels almost like a. good

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