ten days and nights of ocean life. this is. as you can see there is nothing there. any other ships just icebergs. have to look out for. no one to relay messages except. as a miles away 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 they must deliver almost a year's worth of food and fuel to the ice stations and take away seasonal crews

and aircraft. with. a tanker or. a passenger ship and an aircraft carrier. detailed navigational and operational plans are in place. has arrived and no one can ever know just what to expect from antarctica. that 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 bags were to get wet while being loaded they may rot in a warhead. to keep. the clothes. until.

this one is for winter. the other one is a mid-season coat. for special occasions. so much better this time 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. most 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. 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. 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 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 won't fail you 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 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. 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 very come on the bridge of a captain the navigation officer 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. the region is still under explored and. very long distances.

these pictures are from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle 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. there a. 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 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 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.

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 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 hole we tried to head for the open sea but it was already impassable by that time before my fit well with 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 that 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. to be. some of the. grapes.

get back to. carrots different. from your. don't be going oh if 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. on .

as an american i'd like to know what's going to go on and afghanistan from here on i am tired of this cloudy picture of where my money is going you know where our efforts have gone for the last twelve years what our veterans have fought for died for have been injured for i want to know what i think that the obama administration has sort of dropped the ball in two thousand and thirteen and it's about time for them to step up and make this another make our foreign policy in this area a priority ok but do you can can i guess what yours might be your wish international convention ending the use of drones is it close to your wish that sounds great peter and i would add on to that since we last year ended with a strike in yemen and a wedding party there and we also have obama apologizing to the innocent people that we've killed and saying that he will not allow drone strikes to be used again how are you what is your wish for two thousand and fourteen when you get i mean

maginot to have ok let's you know this is you know we're just a few days into the year so no one can say we were wrong go ahead my wish is for significant change on our investments in fighting climate change really if we do not address climate change this is going to be a human crisis that will affect the entire globe. to begin. to. spill blood. in them enough to. the darkness lasts for six months. more than people. and it's as easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so in a special there are no indigenous people but there are those who do choose this

frozen life. could be. if you are. right on the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on a reformist. instrument. to be in the know. 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 academic fewer off 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 huff 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 growing all antarctica stations it are going to make sure that our radio check please respond. progress imune you know the laws of god please respond you. know a lot of reading. level four. 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 couldn't get to the barrier. 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. to come through. we can't cut through so much faster. 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. huge chunk of. the home. to the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the hold. after that

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. massive suddenly started cracking there was a huge behind us over and stopped. the other way.

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. by. talk to. a very short window of time. the only reliable means of getting here is. 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 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 the ship from where it will take off. to use the plane.

taking off from the station as usual. close to the ship the host of containers he's 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. taxed 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 patience of the crew.

to quickly. from here. to the. new. 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. 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 of the cape town seaport there's still another twenty eight days or so. but after antarctica even here feels almost like home. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are pretty cool. there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make

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