came into being lovely but what about the next hundred years well if the recent rounds of quantitative easing are any sign of things to come then we are going to be seeing a lot more inflation and big private bankers getting richer while we all get poorer bad people generally don't survive one hundred years but bad systems sadly can go on and on and on forever but that's just my opinion. africa the i condemning field of diesel electric research vessels the sport. pilot as 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 will be far out of range the ship is setting sail for a 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 end of the tunnel 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 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. nothing there. just icebergs. 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. 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. details navigational and operational plans are in place. has 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 banks were to get. they may rot in a warm hold to keep them in optimal condition the clothes are kept on ice until they need to get out of there your phrase the standard winter outfit consists of shoes. of the wind cheater. 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 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 drive a mechanics they'll usually get 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. challenging trip one thousand five hundred kilometers from the coast in summer temperatures can reach forty zero 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 thousand meters above sea level but also john 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 you want it to be over soon as possible you just want to be back home and. say you

get back home and in time he start feeling a 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. 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. to. these pictures are from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle the maiden voyage of the academic field of the first diesel electric ice ship. 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 fell off the table. 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 gets the job done it's never failed she's really an incredible ship. it's even written somewhere but of academic 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 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. has 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 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. about a form to feel 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. two hundred.

here we have. 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 your part of. the shift with the economic up and downs in the final months day the london deal sank night and the rest of the life they meet they keep moving everything on a. government system just to help poor people poor women but they're going to live to change their life and nobody's trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them by misusing. the whole thing into long shot can do their share

and we're all forced to more shockers. such. as the country fourteen olympics what's this boy's life on the line this is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the game should be the city's present and future one sochi will bring you this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold snowy windy mountainous stuff beyond the olympics but . today on our team. right on the scene. first for you and i think picture.

there's plenty of food fuel. to be. drinking water is. too fresh water. is used to distill seawater to remove the salt. today the crew will conduct a radio test so. that they're within range they are they're all lying all antarctica stations are going to make a field of radio check please respond. please.

reading you level for. now is the time to discuss the details plans for. 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 push. from the sea.

we haven't been able to. break through. here there were about four miles of. we were. due to come through. we can't. 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.

it's a long way from the russian. huge chunk. of the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left they had to conserve fuel for the whole were. after that well wasn't although a few containers with spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone is. told. the. closer to the progress station. sometimes. 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 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. the critical. to pull back and wait for. it turned out that the progress station frontal activity was at its peak for ten days and there was intense and heavy snowfall visibility was practically nothing and. so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped.

me. talk to. 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 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 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

. 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. the waves that caused all the trouble at the station may just help us here.

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from here. to the. thing 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 this year 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. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. on the beach and now i only go to the dock.

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. do. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what do they eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica . he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world

around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the miracle worker on the team. if you. need to. start to construct your. want to be a bit. don't want to be gangstas you don't want to be. they don't want to blow the time that the kid came to be we can see. you just made so that i was like oh probably good. but i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die

young young. drug some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for. the day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

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