Merry Christmas from Antarctica.
Got up and went out onto the ice to stretch the legs and actually touch Antarctica.
Full Christmas lunch with everybody in the mess room then I was back on the bridge for 1630.
The ice image had shown that it was a clear run to Halley so we were to slowly make our way down on one engine to arrive in the morning. That turned out not to be the case, myself and the third mate battled with the ice for 7 hours and found open water at midnight.
We had a bit of a treat as one of the leads we broke into had a pod of about 12 orcas and we followed them for 15 minutes.
Midnight Position 74° 48’S 025° 30’W
The plan is to be alongside Halley at 1000 in the morning then begin to offload all the cargo and FIDs.
Ship stopped in ice
Ice shelf (the small balck blur on the right is some people)
The Shack
Orcas
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