Summer's End, part 2
By the time we were gearing up to leave the island, commercial cruise ships had become a fairly common sight on the Ross Sea. Taking...
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Ken
- Feb 12
- 5 min
Summer's End, part 1
Time moves differently on the ice. While it often takes ages to get from the start of a single twelve-hour shift to its finish, and each...
Ken
- Feb 5
- 8 min
The Armada, part 2
Once the causeway was in place, the Ocean Giant was docked, and the NavCHPs started “swinging cans” (i.e., offloading the hundreds of...
Ken
- Jan 29
- 6 min
The Armada, part 1
I didn’t want to tempt fate. I knew there was, in theory, a secret route behind the fuel lines that would bypass the road to Hut Point...
Ken
- Jan 22
- 5 min
Night Moves
I no longer remember the man’s job title, only that he had previously worked as a cook in various USAP kitchens but had long since...
Ken
- Jan 15
- 7 min
The Novice
The elephant in the room on Franklin’s first day of work was the beefy 3M-brand 1870 N95 mask he wore, a solid block of medical-grade...
Ken
- Jan 8
- 6 min
The Emperor's New Clothes
They cancelled the helo party. Every summer I’d ever spent on the Ice, the live music event hosted by the pilots and techs in the...
Ken
- Jan 1
- 6 min
Out with the Old
The mask mandate persisted into the New Year, if only just, despite the fact that management’s rationale for keeping it in place had long...
Ken
- Dec 25, 2022
- 6 min
How the NSF Stole Christmas*
*or rather, tried to. At some point early in the 2017-18 summer season, somebody digging out one of the storage berms on the outskirts of...
Ken
- Dec 18, 2022
- 5 min
In Vino Vulgaris
The USAP’s “December Safety Refocus” on alcohol was just a highlight reel of the presentation every department in the program had been...
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