ENDURANCE22: Onto the Ice
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Endurance 22 Podcast
The ship is still in the ice floe sir, it keeps its engines on very just ticking over. We dive for maybe eight hours, at which point the ship has to be dead. During that time when the a e v is diving, the rest of the ship's company are allowed out on the ice. You get winched over the side by a crane. And i've done this several times now. The scientists immediately start beatling away and learning about the nature of the ice,. how much snow there is on the ice, how much sea water leakage. Has been at the the bottom of the ice, learning about the effect of climate change and the sea ice changing patterns.
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