Polar expedition AeN JC3 – day 14 – 17: Travelling south
This article is part of the series “2022-02: Winter cruise KPH”.
Day 14 – 17 · 4 – 7 March 2022
4 March: after our second polar bear encounter we leave the ice station P7 at the 82th degree of latitude behind and slowly head south.
This journey will take more than two days although its only 250 km to sail. That’s because many scientific activities go on. Not from the ice but from the ship. Just an excerpt from the activity log:
- CTD with water sample (19×)
- Box core (4×)
- Håv-trekk stasjon (2×)
- Multinet (2×)
I help the benthos people in the lab and learn a lot, I discuss data matters with scientists, I edit photos. At the same time the character of this polar expedition has started to become a bit more leisure-like. A “no-talent show” is organised as well as a table tennis tournament. A quiz evening takes place and J. shows some of his favourite movies. And from time to time I stand on the helicopter deck and take new photos.
7 March: In the morning we arrive at a place between Svalbard’s second largest island Nordaustlandet and the island Kvitøya, that we already passed a week ago. Here we will have a last 24-hour ice station with the adhoc name SIce Kvitøyrenna.
