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> 08-17-05: A Normal Work Day..., ...and the Massive Beauty of the Ship
Ute_Kaden
post Aug 17 2005, 06:14 PM
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A Normal Work Day and the Massive Beauty of the Ship
TREC 8-17-05


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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.

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Ropes and wires have a thick ice cover

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Telescope with icicles

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Ice on the ships bell

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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.

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

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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…

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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.

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See you at the web conference,

Ute
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