08-17-05: A Normal Work Day..., ...and the Massive Beauty of the Ship Options

[Ute_Kaden]

A Normal Work Day and the Massive Beauty of the Ship
TREC 8-17-05


Map by Steve Roberts

Air temperature dropped to below 0C. Ice builds up on deck and the rails freeze. Putting on warmer layers of clothes is a good idea when working outside. The sun is visible for short periods of time.


Ropes and wires have a thick ice cover


Telescope with icicles


Ice on the ships bell


Mammal Observer Alejandro Sayegh from Venezuela

At 3 am in the morning the coring scientists obtained a JPC (Jumbo piston core) and multi core meaning they drop (gravity) a PVC cylinder which hits the ocean floor and fills up with mud (ocean floor sediments). The sediments are a timeline to climate and geological events. I will inform you in a more scientific way later. The ice researchers went out on Healy 1 (orange raft) to sample the sea ice around us.



6 of us went on an engineering tour. We visited all the noisy and dangerous places deep inside the ship.




The ship deserves a special report-for now, just some photos which illustrate the massive beauty of the ship. I can tell you the ladders got steeper (straight down) with smaller steps and the doors heavier. The noise of the ice hitting the hulls was something else…









Looking back at the channel Healy beaks through the ice illustrates the power the ship has. She (all ships are female) is a good ship.



See you at the web conference,

Ute