We experienced a blow which temporarily stopped work at a research station. The blow was 40 knots or 46 mph. Bare in mind this is during summer, winter storms can be a lot worse
Even as an IT-Administrator, I would go to work there. Without any question....It's a rare Place on this world where you can feel the planet. Man.. what an adventure.
Data management and IT communications is an extremely important job down there! The instruments generate 100's of gigabytes a day and that all needs sorting, compressing and transmitting. Search online for any jobs down in Antarctica :)
@@jaskiranism I dont have any particular skills and I live in northern hemisphere but I want to work there as well. Is there any chance ? :D pleaaaaaseeeee
What scares me most isn't the cold and unforgiving weather, but the fact that the more I look into this, the more I want it. Can't I have picked up an easier dream??
When I was in the navy,,, a good friend,,, a person that actually gave me the direction in life that I needed, just didn't know it at the time ,,, but he was a 4.0 sailor and was accepted and did a tour in Antarctica... thats a life challenge that only the strongest if the strong minded people can Do. He succeeded he was one of a kind. Thank u so much Russell K. Your an inspiration to all who get the privilege to know u
Ok where do I sign to get a job there? I'm not a scientist but, hey, if I have to be the guy that cleans up everything, so be it. I'd feel at home in this kind of environment.
You can be a solider in your country. Or be a doctor/PhD holder in biology or related to get a chance to go there for a long time. And also you can go as a tourist. But keep in mind it’s very hard to stay, even for 3 days. You will be cursing the cold.
I had a roommate that would go down there seasonally and shovel snow around the buildings. No clue where he found that job but I guess there is something
This is amazing. How do you keep power? Generators? And if so how do you keep them from freezing up? The logistics for this kind work must be mind boggling.
The generators are probably inside the facilty too and for energy my best guess is a mixture of both a turbine spinning with air, solar panels and a fuel storage
@@HawkGTboy No it didn't. The treaty prohibits nuclear _weapons,_ but we also don't take nuclear materials there. Plus, everything at McMurdo goes through NZ who won't allow anything nuclear. (the most anyone would ever even think about would be an RTG, and that's a laughable low amount of power for an Antarctic station. Maybe a field camp, or tractor on a traverse -- see also: the martian.)
(a) NEVER turn off the generator. (b) keep the fuel "warm". (they use a special blend that won't freeze down to -40/-50?) (c) keep the generators out of the elements.
I've just finished reading "COLD" by Ranulph Fiennes , the story of his trans polar trek and Everest climb, a truly terrifying account of the coldest and most dangerous places on the planet, I would recommend that anyone considering a trip to either polar area reads it first, it may change your mind !
What an amazing adventure. Even with the danger all around you, the beautiful landscape and view around you must be stunning. Part of your life that you'll carry your entire life! Stay blessed, sending good vibes and prayers for safe living out there. Thank you for sharing!
I'll be going to the Arctic for research, but soon after I am setting my sight on the Antarctic. Love the video, helps remind me of this goal on my map!
Where in the Arctic? I just started watching a RU-vid channel of someone who lives in Svalbard and she explained the have a school there for people specializing in Arctic-related sciences and other such fields.
This is an amazing set of videos that you have uploaded. I'm a MYP Design teacher from the UK who is teaching in Xi'an in China and I have a unit on personalised housing that I teach as part of the interior design component. Up until now I've been using camper van and micro house videos as an introduction to that unit to try to get my students to empathise with the essentials needed to live in a space, but I'm going to go through your videos and pick out the best parts to use as a starter for this unit from now on. I'm tempted to switch the unit to an 'antarctic base' theme to give an added context. Thank you for posting all of these, keep them coming!
I spent 3 years down there. We kept the temperture our rooms we lived in in the 30s and 40s. Out side it was -20. You would get use to the cold. I lived out on the Ross Ice Shelf. Not uncommon to walk outside in a t-shirt or sweat shirt in extream cold temps for short time.
Keep in mind - and not meaning to diminish this experience in the slightest - but this is December, i.e. summer. In winter you have the long night - six months of total dark. Temperatures on the Antarctic plateau in winter are so extreme they make Greenland or Siberia look like the Mediterranean. The record low in the Northern Hemisphere is -69.6⁰C at an automated weather station in Greenland. Oymyakon in the Sakha Republic of Russia has recorded -67.7⁰C, the lowest for a permenantly inhabited location (I saw a RU-vid video about life in the Sakha Republic which mentioned temps below -70, but, officially at least, this has never been recorded). At Vostok Station in Antarctica the daily mean in August is -67.9 and the average low for that time of year is -71.5⁰C. Summer temps at Vostok have reached -64. EDIT: I should clarify that the South Pole is much colder than Oymyakon and always has people at it, but none of them are residents of the South Pole. Oymyakon is the coldest place with a permanent population of actual residents, as opposed to the scientists who come and go at the South Pole.
Read endurance, the survival story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew. They endured this with minimal cover on elephant island and it sounds like the most miserable shit ever
playing the longest dark on my pc right now, made me youtube blizzards,coldest places on earth...glad i found this! what an incredible place,scary yet satisfying.
This reminds me of the scene in the movie "The Martian" when he's sitting in the HAB during that sandstorm, and all you hear is the wind blowing tons of sand against the HAB around him, and the quiet beep of the monitor next to him letting him know that one of the airlocks is vacuum. Almost peaceful, but absolutely terrifying once you think about the fact that there isn't much between you and certain death.
Dude that’s total whiteout if you wonder outside to go the next building, could you imagine if you got lost and turned around. You would NEVER be found again EVER. That a surreal feeling watching this.
I am both intrigued and frightened by Antarctica. The cold isn’t what scares me, I’m willing to brace that, however it’s the endless expanse of flat land snow with no indicators of where you are sounds like something that would drive me insane into a nervous wreck. Especially if I were alone. The Inuit have a term called ‘Snow sickness’ when people mentally snap during the winter months when the environment becomes seamless - Antarctica is like that nonstop.
At Willy Field, we had ropes tied between buildings so we don't get lost during Herbies. They were so much fun. I seen you using your ropes there at times. I have to say, I never fell in the snow once when living down there. I fell many times.
I was the Scottish Marine Radio Officer/ETO on the first voyage of the RRS Ernest Shackleton equipped with Internet coverage in 2003. Back then Halley Base 3 stilts. You did not have the bandwidth for RU-vid Video. I spent 6 months on that Royal Research Ship and then joined BP shipping and travelled the World.
If I was stuck in the living module and we only had movies I would put on "The Thing". Always a great way to really bring people together in a snow storm :).
I remember going to the Grand Canyon and it was freezing AF over there and they said it was 50 and it felt WORSE than that my hands went numb and I can't IMAGINE how it is here
I actually dont know exact answer why i and others feel like that,i just like beatifull winters, coldness and it makes me feel alive. I assume you are from warm place of this earth.
@@koistinen9368 I’m North-African but born and raised in europe, I visit my family and country in the summer if I can so it’s pretty warm there in the summer. But here in europe it’s not as often sunny as on African countries so eventhough I’m used to the cold here I could never really like or love it... maybe it’s because my roots are African? Something to do with being warm blooded or something? I don’t know...
I don’t know. Antarctica is just so cool to me. When I was little I used to just look at maps of Antarctica with my school atlases, just imagining traveling across there. I like it’s snowy ice landscape, and the mystery of what is beneath the miles of ice in Antarctica (since there’s land beneath it). If I had the money, I would definitely take a cruise there. Just imagine the night sky.
I Can’t stick this weather in wales 🏴 I would probably die there… 🥶💀👻😂 I loved the video and raw footage what a brilliant you job you have there mate ,What an experience 💯🙂
I'm here after randomly fantasizing on what kind of cooling would be the best for my PC. A system unit enclosure with air inlets and exhaust leading to the outside, but so designed as to let just the dry, freezing air of Antarctica in, but not the brutal weather. Like wow, how cool my pc run with such a setup lmao! 😆
i love...love snow storms, was stationed in grand lakes a few years, then in nj newerk a few years with lake effect snow, then several navel ships in the north atlantic for a number of cruses, then trained with marines in alaska for over a year, wish i could have stayed there
holly molly i study computer science but do i love adventure and nature this is just a dreamland for me to be honest some might see it as a hostile place i see it as a special Maldives-like place no cap 😂 you are so lucky to be there hopefully one day i will be able to visit it and other places on this gorgeous blue ball that we call home !
