"With lectures and film presentations to complete our Antarctic experience, there is still plenty of time to enjoy the magic of the Southern Ocean and the life that calls it home. There is time for reflection and discussion about what we have seen and experienced. We hope you become ambassadors for Antarctica telling your family, friends and colleagues about your journey to this magical place, advocating for its conservation and preservation so that they might one day visit the region to experience what you have been lucky to see and do here."
Day 21 of our Antarctic Tour.
Mark attended the geology talk and then snoozed through the political one. I did the reverse.
We did a tour of the bridge.
I sat in the Captain’s seat, luckily it was on auto pilot!
A photo of a pic from 1 of the crew.
A few fun facts about the ship:
-uses 20 tonnes of fuel per day
-the pool water goes into the filtration tanks when emptied.
-Osmosis pushes the saltwater through high
pressure membranes and then the freshwater is used on the ship & the salt goes back out to sea.
-Grey water tanks go through a filter treatment. It goes through different membranes and is discharged 4-10 nautical miles from land.
-Top speed 14 knots.
-Stabilisers are independent.
-25 different menus in rotation.
-No plastic or wood in galley.
-3 walk in freezers & 2 walk in fridges hold
137 cubic meters of storage
-50 dozen eggs a day
-All bread, biscuits, pastries are baked fresh daily by bakery
-Left over produce can be re used in a different meal as long it hasn't been put out for serving.
The boat has been rocking with 3m waves for most of the day. We are ahead of the storm at the moment. It will increase early in the morning to possibly 5-6m. Hopefully we will be back in Ushuaia by midday when the waves on the Drake Passage are expected to be 9m.
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