Same, same today. Slept well, awoke early, ship still rocking and rolling. Watched the clouds colouring a little out the cabin window. Then watched a fascinating doco on UKTV on the making of a mattress, then Father Brown sucked us in before breaky.
Met Mark and Dianne from Adelaide (the COVID couple) and chatted for some time. Then it was time for first lecture from Stephi titled ‘Two ice sheets’ focussing on the climate science and the Gamburtsev Mountains are the size of the European Alps but completely covered in 2+km of ice.
90% of ice is on East Antarctica, 10% in the West
Ice streams are super fast highways of ice delivering ice to the Antarctic coast.
Marine ice sheet vs continual ice sheet.
The repercussions for earth of the inevitable collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet are great. What does it mean for each of us us as individuals?
Animated video – Wake up Freak Out.
Out on deck to capture some Wandering Albatrosses hopefully and I joined the Citizen Science Cloud Survey again, a few more clouds about today, rather than solid grey of earlier.
We lunched at Rockhopper today, which has been closed the past two days due to bad weather.
Interesting set of lectures today.
We had the Glaciation discussion with Stephi – which really provoked thought about what we can do about it.
Later Lucas ran an interesting workshop on the psychology and physiology of free driving.
Then Stephi hosted “Humans of the Sylvia Earle’ which had 10 passengers giving a 5 minute presentation. They ranged from Naked in Nature, to Carbon sequestration and cement, showing your stripes of temperature over 100 years, Marijuana and Ice, cleaning up industry, language and its importance, debunking banking, sailing the world in a pandemic,
RECAP/PRECAP
Vicky and snow petrel facts.
Max – albatrosses being used to track illegal fishing through radar backpack loggers on the bird collecting radar pings from ships at sea. 30% of the ships tracked had their radars turned off (illegal)
Neil. Climate Change
Chair of climate change action network Australia.
Russell – history of rock paper scissors.
Howard.
Approaching Falklands tonight. Pilot on board at 7.30 through narrows to Stanley Harbour to the FIPASS wharf.
Time to watch entrance Wake up call 6.30.
Temp at 12 feels like 3. Windy.
Leave about 5pm out to sea over top of Falklands to West Falklands. Carcass Island then hope to go to Saunders Island. Following morning West Point Island.
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 