Day 4 - Where the Scott are we going!
We awake on day 4. The jet lag and
land-lubbering lethargy of the prievious days we must put behind us. Our
departure is a sharp 9am, just moments after our IT guru, Richard, arrives from
South Georgia by Sea.
An immediate safety brief and a tour of the
rescue craft. Hamish sums it up well: “We don’t want you swimming in the
water. It would be really dire. We’ll get you into a life raft dry…which will
be really dire too…but we’ll be ok”. Expect a special post on what would happen
in an emergency…perhaps towards the end when friends and family think we are
safe ;-)
Photo: Skipper Hamish giving the team a talking to about safety.
So it’s time to tell you where the Great
Scott we are going. Our plan is to travel directly south toward the Antarctic
Peninsula. On the way we’ll try and measure the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
(more on that later) and also catch the centre of the blob! Then we will travel
east towards the South Sandwich Arc picking up some moorings on the way, which
hopefully aren’t frozen over with ice (more on that to come too). Then we’ll
travel back around via South Georgia checking how much blob has oozed into the
Atlantic (we’ll it doesn’t really ooze but it sounds cool…).
We have instruments to deploy. See you
tomorrow!
Photo: 'Planned' Cruise track. We'll see how much the ice stops us in our tracks.
Jan - I'm enjoying the blog. Safety briefings are better than not knowing what to do in an emergency - but you have to remember in the heat (or cold) of the moment.
ReplyDeleteHello man, did you take off already? Who is doing the DMP/HRP? cheers
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