Windspeed (knots): 17
Sunrise: 0650
Sunset: 1847
Yesterday I got to go dive tending instead of working. Dive tending is basically going out with the scuba divers and helping them and all of their gear in and out of the water.
The ocean here is super salinated because as the top layer freezes, the salt gets pushed out of the ice and into the water, so there is more salt then in any other ocean. Because salt causes water to freeze at a lower temperature than normal, so the water temperature her is about 29 degrees F. Yikes!
Yesterday's mission was to clean up some old science experiments and equipment that's been left down there, unfortunately, for decades.
Here are some pics of the sea ice, a Pisten Bully (a small tracked vehicle used to get around on sea ice) the divers getting ready, the hole they jumped into (I have jumped into holes like that on several occasions, but with no dive suit, no nothing! I don't really feel the need to repeat that polar plunge, but I sure am glad I did it!), and also the dive hut from the outside.
Yesterday was a LOT nicer than today, so I got really, really lucky!
No comments:
Post a Comment