this is illegal these courts are locking up people with fines that have exploded in size due to interest imposed on the initial amount and for the representation they had when they were in court which i always thought was supposed to be free but worst of all some are still in prison for fees they occurred while being in prison like having the audacity to use toilet paper hey that's taxpayer money down the toilet the kicker to this all is that throwing people in prison for their public debts costs more than the debts the prisoners have to pay off that's right the local governments lose money doing this someone please resurrect the founding fathers america is running out of time if you aren't worried about this comeback of debtors' prisons are you think those rednecks deserve it so let me ask you something how's it going with paying off all your loans and bills i hope for your sake you don't miss a payment but that's just my opinion. cape

town south africa the i condemn it few other of diesel electric research vessels e-sports. the flag to show other marine 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 cellphone very soon will be out of range the ship is setting sail for a vast and inaccessible area if there's any kind of emergency will be no one to provide any kind of help. the russian ships sail south 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 couldn't make sure they're off 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 one thousand 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 life.

as you can see nothing there. any of the ships just icebergs. no one to relay messages except. 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. 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 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 optimum 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 cheetah. 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 driving 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 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. 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 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 it seems endless takes 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 and. say you get back home and in time he stopped feeling a strong desire to. the work is difficult but the guys are great and you feel good once everything is done. i feel 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 the ship closes in on antarctica 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. these pictures are from nine hundred eighty seven they chronicle the 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 the table was. huge bang and. the table. spilled everywhere. it. 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 but the 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 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. 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 to some off 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 form of the 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. the cruise. really. something we have lots of cabbage.

we have. two hundred. here we have. some of the. grapes. we get back to. food.

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 . when you pour so. much of your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american culture example mindful eating social eating of voiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think this american culture has on the rest of the incredible.

succeeded two things with. the world the snake and the with the food they did all the countries worldwide. government system is to help poor people poor women but they can only change their life and nobody is trying to make money out of them those who want to make money out of them by misusing government concept turn the whole thing into law a shocking deduction and we're all forced to look shocking. the twenty fourth jean olympics with this police line on the line is so special as the russian resort prepares to welcome the world power the games should be in the

city's present and future what more sochi will bring yet this is the moment they're reporting from a very cold and snowy windy mountainous stuff beyond the olympics but . today on our team. there's plenty of water food fuel and even. today. there are there alling all antarctic. academic.

level. now is the time to discuss the details plans for. fuel and food and to evacuate the departing crews from. the action. but nothing can be taken for granted. 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. due to come through. 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. from the. huge chunk. of the ocean. four out of ten fuel tanks were left. to conserve fuel for the whole. well wasn't although a few containers of spare parts and some snowmobiles were also lost. everyone is. told though the. closer to the progress. sometimes surprises to. 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 it suddenly started cracking. behind us over and stopped. the other way. the critical factor. 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 the flight was

zero so we had to wait ten days until it finally stopped. me. talk to. 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 croft. 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 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 . but it was impossible. and the fuel tanks were the 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 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.

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from here. to the. nothing. could 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. with 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.

unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. 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. who. 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 . the beginning of the unknown politic night marks in the face as full island life.

in the island of temptation. the dog was lost for six months. more polar bears than people. and it's as easy to hire a rifle as a scooter. because the island is so in a spiritual there are no indigenous people but there are all those who do choose this frozen life. this era is could be right and. if you are. some of the sixteen percent of 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. but they enter our territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. right to see. first street. and i think what you're. on a reporter's. instrument. could

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