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. tanker. and an aircraft carrier. detailed navigational and operational plans are in place. as arrived and no one can ever know just what to expect from an. article 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 bags were to get wet while being loaded they may rot in a warm hold to keep them in optimum condition the clothes are kept ice until they need to get out of there you'll freeze the standard winter outfit consists of four pairs of shoes thermal underwear a fleece scarf and a winch eater. this one is for winter. the other one is a mid season coat. and this one's for special occasions. so much better. look they also have

a vest. turn around. no they didn't have the straps to be crossed otherwise they slip off your back. right the same comments every single year but it's not so often that they put things right. most of the. remote and hard to reach stations. of course it's ok for work. of course. it's almost twice the size of your. challenging trip one thousand five hundred kilometers from the coast in summer

temperatures can reach forty. but there. is a staggering minus. 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. transmission and mainframe. all those. factors huge groups 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 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 want it to be over soon as possible you just want to be back home. so you get back home and in time you stuff feeling 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. all that 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. you. 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. having. yes i remember that clearly but we were having tea at the table was. huge bang and the car fell off the table. spilled everywhere.

it was a rock wasn't shown on the chart. everything was fine in the end when 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 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 never gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship. it's even written somewhere academic sure there 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 this 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 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 before my fit well with. 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 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 form to feel better 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 crews . really. something we have lots of cabbage. we have. to be.

some of the. grapes. get back to. carrots different types of.

but according 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 . on you that's. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. 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. i used to be

a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what to eat and want to be actually doing in antarctica. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think oldest money. know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to any gold we're not going to eat we're not going to be . we're not going to drink what clearly. is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say there for any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into

the global financial system. with leader part of a geo political economic system it's extremely exploitative. the first was a question where the mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment and so on will you know those are pretty serious questions mining it's not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states.

there's a media lead us so we leave that maybe. by the same motions to the. party there's a big. push is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our team. he's. to make a final decision. he has changed his life and the world around him. by giving. hope.

and love to so many children. the american worker on t.v. . 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. 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. 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 growing all antarctica stations are going to make a radio check. please respond

you. know 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 area 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 for. mother nature. to come through. we can't cut through so much. now and last year we couldn't get through when it was just two. 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. huge chunk. of the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the hold. well wasn't although a few containers of spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone. told. the progress. sometimes. too. 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 happening. we had to wait half an hour at the. massive suddenly started cracking there was a huge behind us. and stopped. the other way. to pull back and. it turned out that the progress of station frontal activity was at its peak for ten days and there was intense. visibility was practically nothing and the flight was zero 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. 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 block of ice on which to land. still remember the. from a cracking ice book imagine it lifts off the ice cracks right after it it was terrifying. taking its first flight. and assembled the ship from. the plane. taking off from the station as usual. 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. sudden i heard a huge noise out there i went to check it out it was the show. started

screaming. it was impossible. and the fuel tanks were empty 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 in store for us. the waves that caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here. as well as the patience of the crew for.

the most convenient place. to quickly.

go. 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. no longer matters the main tasks have been completed.

will be here 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 home. britain's clotting community fears its good name has been tarnished after incidents

of people in clown costume scaring members of the public the copy cat craze believed to have been started by a man known on facebook as the northampton clown involves people dressing as the circus characters to surprise passers by in public places i know what you're thinking you're thinking that sounds a whole lot like the terrifying clowns of westminster george osborne with his big red nose and floppy feet scaring citizens into taking on ever more debt for fear of missing out on the property ladder or the equally our fire stephen king like clowns of ben bernanke and mark carney wearing their big red frizzy wigs and staring menacingly in through your window at night pointing teeny tiny scored goals of the bankers. obviously we should be quite concerned about a lot of the recent revelations about spying and so forth the internet remains the

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