My time on the Ocean Gladiator while participating in Operation Deep Freeze 2023. Thank you to the crew of the Ocean Gladiator. Music Artist: Hippie Sabotage Video where music mix is from: • Hippie Sabotage - The ...
If I was still young and healthy I would love a Job on a Ship like that. This son of a Old long past Dutch Man is stuck at home for now it's great to travel Vicariously with videos like yours . Thank you.😁
@@alekzander2010 I was lucky to just ask. One way to Greenland. I paid %66 US one way to Svalbard then worked on my return. I was on-board for 13 nights. Ship is now scrapped. Plus i had to wait 1 week camping rough bur camping in Norway us so easy. Memories of a young man.
I was wondering about that too, as it seems pretty labor intensive, depending on how many ships they get per season. Maybe they install the dock at the beginning of the thaw and remove it before freeze?
I know, that blew my mind. I was in I trrnational transport (more commercial) for over a quarter century and I'd never heard of this. Just take the whole dock with you when you're done. But I guess it beats damage from ice in winter.
So much for watching them blow a straight edge on the ice pier and it's Blue Nose for either southern or northern circles ........... BTDT ....(79-80 & 80-81 Summer Seasons)............ enjoy
It is a great job for the science & saving the earth. I am surprised to see this specially built container freight equipped with big cranes to lift floating docks & containers for a remote area. Also the submersible bow can breaking up ice easily which is not as a typical one breaking the ice by the forward movement & ship’s weight. Just wonder what the maximum thickness of ice is designed for? Thank & proud of you to support the research project & have fun like the celebration of crossing Antarctic circle. Just a reminder, you have save $10,000+ of Antarctic expedition cruise cost🤔
Mr. Chiu, The ship has an ice classed hull. It is designed to withstand ice to an extent less than that of an ice breaker. The bulbous bow is fairly standard in design other than the reinforced internal structure. In the video, we transited through brash ice around six feet thick at approximately four knots. We were at about our limit in terms of what the ship could withstand. If we encountered fast ice at the same thickness, we would have been unable to proceed without an ice breaker creating a path for us.
Dumb question, but how did the tie up go? I saw you port side to the dock, but lines leading out to the starboard side onto shore. Did I miss something?
