{"id":43,"date":"2014-11-28T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:14:24","slug":"the-araon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/2014\/11\/28\/the-araon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Araon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The RM Araon<\/strong><\/a> is the 360ft long ice breaker that will take us from Christchurch to Jang Bogo station.\u00a0 It will be our home for 10 to 12 days, depending on when we actually leave and the sea conditions.\u00a0 Terry knows nothing about ships and is not a water person, so this portion of the trip has him a little on edge.\u00a0 At least the Araon looks good from the outside, all nicely painted and with lots of cranes and antennas and life boats.<\/p>\n

\"Araon-Lyttleton\"<\/a>

The Korean ice breaker Araon, in Lyttelton harbor<\/p><\/div>\n

On the inside, the ship is surprisingly spacious.\u00a0 The two of us are sharing a 4 person cabin and there is plenty of room for all of the stuff we hauled on board.\u00a0 We have 4 bunks, 2 desks, 4 closets, a refrigerator, a couch, a porthole window and a bathroom. \u00a0\u00a0 Not only are the rooms larger than expected, there are numerous spacious laboratories.\u00a0 Most of these are full of cargo that is headed for our destination, Jang Bogo Station<\/a>.\u00a0 After that stop, the Araon will perform numerous sea experiments such as retrieving hydrophones and other instruments sprinkled around the Antarctic, as well as a visit to the nearby Italian Mario Zucchelli Station<\/a>.\u00a0 For scientists, we have 32 Koreans, 5 Italians, 3 Kiwis, 3 Americans, 1 Australian, 1 German and 1 Finn.\u00a0 There are a total of 3 women and 72 men on board for this leg of the journey.\u00a0 This is about the ratio of Terry’s graduating class in Electrical Engineering in 1984.<\/p>\n

\"Araon<\/a>

Cabin Scientist No. 13 on the Araon<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the more unusual features of the Araon is the full time satellite internet connection.\u00a0 This can not be cheap.\u00a0 But with 46 scientists and 29 crew, the competition for bandwidth is\u00a0 intense.\u00a0 Still, the connection works and we are able to upload this blog with a bit of persistence.\u00a0\u00a0 For the evenings of 25-26 November, we bunked on the Araon but were able to get off and walk about Lyttelton as we wished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RM Araon is the 360ft long ice breaker that will take us from Christchurch to Jang Bogo station.\u00a0 It will be our home for 10 to 12 days, depending on when we actually leave and the sea conditions.\u00a0 Terry knows nothing about ships and is not a water person, so this portion of the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 07:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}