Day 54

  the sea ice and las resort attached to the ROV crane, if the ship starts moving, you can jump in there to be rescued.

  ships gangway and mooring line

  flags marking a crack and mooring line

  ramp up to caboose, marked with flags

  skiddoos

  penguins

Well we are here, ‘alongside’ at Halley. The actual base is approximately 10km away, we have moored to a big bit of sea ice in creek 3. The ship is tied to ‘deadmen’ (big fence posts)  hammered into the ice.

There are flags marking the danger areas on the ice and we are not allowed to walk very far as there are large cracks. If we want to venture up the cliff, we hitch a ride on one of the snow cats.

At the top of the ramp is a ‘caboose’ (a big portacabin) that is there primarily for safety, if the ice breaks away and the ship floats off, anybody left on the ice can make their way to the caboose and await rescue from the base.

Most of the FIDs are gone and so is a fair bit of cargo, the 24 hours of sunlight make it much less tiring than it was in Immingham.