07/09/2011
Bears, Cracks and Fog
(by Till)
We just had a few hours of port in Svalbard, exchanging media crews - reuters and arte have gone off the ship and been replaced by 2 southafrican journalists.
Unfortunately blogging isn't the easiest matter since we don't have internet out on the ice, so i've got to get this out before we leave the longyearbyen fjord...
any volunteers to manage our blog whilst we're out on the ice?
we would email you the content and you'd have to put it up for us... get in touch via my ship's email address: camp2@myas.greenpeace.org
weather is predicted to be absolutely disastrous the next few days, so we're steaming up the west coast of svalbard to seek shelter in ny olesund (or something like that) until it clears up and then we'll cross the framstraight into the ice at a 81N 1E.
This first week has been pretty intense, reuters and arte only really had three days on the ice so they were constantly trying to get shots, interviews etc. At the same time we were coordinating 6 different instruments on the ice and up to 15 people working. Combining that with constant bear presence, extremely thick fog and at one point an ice floe breaking up like quicksand beneath our feet made for quite exciting days.
But who would be better suited to write about these things than the pros from greenpeace and reuters so please check out the following links...
http://twitter.com/#!/jossgarman
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/bearing-down-us-80-degrees-north-20110906
(that picture is actually from our expedition...)
and look for gerard wynn's stuff over the next days on google news e.g
I'm losing connection any second now so byebye and hopefully speak soon !
We just had a few hours of port in Svalbard, exchanging media crews - reuters and arte have gone off the ship and been replaced by 2 southafrican journalists.
Unfortunately blogging isn't the easiest matter since we don't have internet out on the ice, so i've got to get this out before we leave the longyearbyen fjord...
any volunteers to manage our blog whilst we're out on the ice?
we would email you the content and you'd have to put it up for us... get in touch via my ship's email address: camp2@myas.greenpeace.org
weather is predicted to be absolutely disastrous the next few days, so we're steaming up the west coast of svalbard to seek shelter in ny olesund (or something like that) until it clears up and then we'll cross the framstraight into the ice at a 81N 1E.
This first week has been pretty intense, reuters and arte only really had three days on the ice so they were constantly trying to get shots, interviews etc. At the same time we were coordinating 6 different instruments on the ice and up to 15 people working. Combining that with constant bear presence, extremely thick fog and at one point an ice floe breaking up like quicksand beneath our feet made for quite exciting days.
But who would be better suited to write about these things than the pros from greenpeace and reuters so please check out the following links...
http://twitter.com/#!/jossgarman
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/bearing-down-us-80-degrees-north-20110906
(that picture is actually from our expedition...)
and look for gerard wynn's stuff over the next days on google news e.g
Arctic ice breaks up as polar bears stalk ship
I'm losing connection any second now so byebye and hopefully speak soon !
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