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Cruisin' Threads => Routes and Destinations => Topic started by: Coastal Cruiser on January 15, 2006, 05:49:12 PM

Title: Iceman, some shots and locations that you may remember.
Post by: Coastal Cruiser on January 15, 2006, 05:49:12 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/B-15.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/icebergdown.jpg)


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/Bateau1/2000anartica.jpg)
Title: Re: Iceman, some shots and locations that you may remember.
Post by: Iceman on January 16, 2006, 04:39:41 PM
Are you sure those are Antarctica icebergs and not the Arctic

When did you go down there??

I did 2 stints at Palmer Station and one at McMurdo

Ice
Title: Re: Iceman, some shots and locations that you may remember.
Post by: Iceman on January 16, 2006, 06:51:31 PM
Is there some way you can convey the enormity of Berg 15 to the sailfar crew

Its hard to capture in a photo
Title: Re: Iceman, some shots and locations that you may remember.
Post by: Coastal Cruiser on January 16, 2006, 07:42:22 PM
Yes the sample shots are from Anartica. My son spent the summer of 2000 and 2001 down there. I have irreplacable discs from the area, including playing his trumpet on the south pole. He has icicles hanging from the spit valves. The other shot, if I recall is Mt. Erebus. He spent his time on the CG icebreakers, and some time on the helos, with the scientists, placing the tubes on that shot.


TheB-15 iceberg has its own website. The picture was shot and the provided link was written at the same time.


http://nsidc.org/icebergs/b15/

I still an amazed at the shots of the Orcas, face to faces, most of all. I have always been interested in that part of the world. I do know that some recruitment takes place for job placements, but I am way too old to do the stint now. There is a great group online for the old folks that did a lot of duty during the 1950s and 60s that still accept folks through the present date, I will attempt to find, that is has a reuinion for the guys early Oct-Nov each year.