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The last northbound ship for the season has departed. Each time a ship leaves, it takes friends with it. Those left behind pay homage to those who are leaving. The water is cold.
Will @ June 29, 2009
Be the first to comment (0)When we’re not washing dishes or scrubbing toilets or shoveling snow or responding to emergencies we fill the spare time with work. Here’s a short video of a cargo operation on the pier:
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Will @ June 25, 2009
Be the first to comment (0)In addition to being a fire fighter in Antarctica and continuing the theme of the many hats of Palmer here’s a little something about another one of the many jobs that those of us at Palmer have to do – Ocean Search & Rescue (OSAR).
OSAR is a great team to be involved in. [...]
Will @ June 16, 2009
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Palmer station, being the least populated of the three year-round U.S. research stations, requires all personnel here to fill several roles. Palmer is simply too small to support a dedicated fire department, full-time dishwasher (or D.A. – dining attendant at the other stations) or dedicated laborer (G.A. at the other stations), janitor, equipment operator [...]
Will @ June 2, 2009
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Taking statistics seems like a strange thing to do as a hobby, yet for hundreds of men in the Antarctic it makes perfect sense.
Going to be at McMurdo station Antarctica in early October? Head up to the carp shop break room during flight operations at the ice runway for a glimpse into what I [...]
Will @ May 27, 2009
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WTF? you might ask. I’m pretty much asking the same thing….sometimes this place is so odd, so quirky, so weird that it defies explanation or definition.
I’ve really been trying to explain the quirks and oddities that are Antarctica (at least for those of us in The Program). It’s tough to explain to someone [...]
Will @ May 25, 2009
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Sometimes things get weird.
First, there is a fishing group on station who decided to provide some dinner theater to promote their upcoming fishing cruise – they promoted the presumably once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend the night with “not one, not two, but three women in rubber suits” – it was definitely entertaining and their bravery for [...]
Will @ May 24, 2009
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Just less than a year ago I did a review on Werner Herzog’s Antarctic documentary film. See it here: Encounters With Mediocre Cinema at the End of the World – or if you can’t be bothered reading that; my Cliff’s notes version of my own review is that I didn’t care too much [...]
Will @ May 21, 2009
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One of the concepts I tried to write about in the finding home series is that of the incredibly small world I seem to have found myself part of. A couple of recent events have really highlighted that fact. First; a legendary Polie who was working in Greenland at the time became lost [...]
Will @ May 19, 2009
Be the first to comment (0)Fairly recently I finished up a six part series (part one here in case you missed it)that gave a summary of my trip to Palmer Station. I’m fairly sure that I arrived here about six weeks ago and I haven’t found time to write very much about what life is like at Palmer, which [...]
Will @ May 16, 2009
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