Scillonian Down South!

A journey south and back again on the RRS Ernest Shackleton; departing the Isles of Scilly, via the Falklands and some other places besides. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the UK’s national Antarctic operator, and has for the past 60 years been responsible for most of the UK’s scientific research in Antarctica. Part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), BAS operates five research stations, two Royal Research Ships and five aircraft in and around Antarctica.

Saturday 24 December 2011

Been a busy few months!

Ok So its been a busy few months, got married, when on honeymoon and then had to rejon the ship...

Thursday 7 April 2011

SVP

"The Surface Velocity Profiler (SVP) is a drifting buoy specifically designed to track the ocean currents at a fixed depth of 15 meters.

The key elements if the SVP include the surface float with contains the telemetry system and sensors necessary to retrieve and transmit the required data and the drogue that it is designed to hold the SVP in place on the ocean surface." (Quote from the deployment instructions).

We deployed several of these on the way from Bird Island toward Stanley in the Falklands to fill a gap in the drift buoy network in the Southern Ocean.

Anyway next instalment will be some photographs of the wedding of Tim and Jules in SG at Grytviken Church. (This actually happen before the buoy deployment but I did not download the photographs from my camera.)

We are off to Falmouth now.. Almost back home!! not long now...