Cold! Icebreaker Rules!

FROM SEAMASTER Sunday 14 January 2001,
10 miles north-west of Hope Bay at the entrance to Antarctic Sound at the top of the Antarctic Peninsula. Hope Bay is off to the west side of 'iceberg alley' - where many bergs broken off from the ice in the Weddell Sea come through Antarctic Sound on their journey out into the south Atlantic.

All this afternoon, rows of bergs of different shapes and sizes have been lining both sides of our course as we head south. Many are grounded in shallow waters (if anyone can call 100 metre deep water shallow) and we are weaving our way between a great number of smaller bits. We have to have an iceberg watch on the bow at all times, looking out for the bits that are hard to see... To be here and see excess fresh water transformed into pieces of Antarctic ice shelf now floating past is to marvel at nature. To understand how everything affects everything else is a basic principle that we are all going to have to learn, believe and understand.

If we can get the simple but vital messages out to the world about the need to make every aspect of our environment sustainable, then I will begin to feel that our expeditions over the next 5 years and beyond can make a difference.

If we can convince millions of individuals that theyneed to change their attitudes, then we will have been successful. IT`S TIME. MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Best wishes from all on board Seamaster.

Kind regards, Peter.

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