areas of the Southern Ocean which are rarely visited – if
ever – by scientists. And the research was conducted
under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences’
Institute of Oceanology. Among our crew members was
one of the Academy’s professors, Piotr Kukliński.”
he buoys will drift around the continent for a
number of years but will spend much of the time
under water. hey are programmed to sink to depths
of 2,000m, collect data, and then resurface to transmit
that data to satellites. Each will submerge and
resurface some 100,000 times per annum.TOP LEFT The best
strategy through
the growler ice is
gently-does-it. The
gimballed cooker
says it all.
ABOVE A coldish
hell. Despite the mid-
summer conditions,
the boat’s rigging was
covered in ice.
LEFT A pleasant day
in Antarctica.30 Boating New Zealand