{"id":74,"date":"2014-12-24T22:38:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/?p=74"},"modified":"2015-01-01T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:36:10","slug":"breaking-big-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/2014\/12\/24\/breaking-big-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Big Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We crossed into the Ross Sea around 04 December and Tera Nova Bay around 06 December, encountering ever thicker ice as we proceeded poleward.\u00a0\u00a0 At first, the strategy was to navigate around to find thin ice.\u00a0 This is the job of the Ice Pilots.\u00a0 We had two of them, from Russia, and one was on duty at all times.\u00a0 They would call out navigation orders in English, and the Helmsman would confirm in English and then drive the boat in Korean.\u00a0 The Capitan is also on duty .<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141202_104341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141202_104341-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ice Pilot\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141202_104341-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141202_104341-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141202_104341.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Pilot looks for the most navigable ice.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The result is that we take a long, slow and circuitous\u00a0 path toward our destination.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141206_130249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141206_130249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A Crooked Path\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141206_130249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141206_130249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/20141206_130249.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Araon steers a crooked path looking for the best ice. This is a photograph of the ship&#8217;s position over about a day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Near the end, we were making only a couple of hundred feet of headway at a time.\u00a0 The ice would stop the progress of the Araon, they would back up a half mile, build up speed and ram the ice to make a little progress.\u00a0 Over and over and over&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 Slower and Slower as we approach land.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0108-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"One Small Step\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0108-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0108-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0108.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Araon backs up after being stopped by the ice, but making a nice crack. Mount Melbourne awaits us in the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_79\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79\" src=\"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0105-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Petrel\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0105-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2014\/12\/DSCN0105-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This skua takes advantage of the newly broken ice to see if the water might contain a little something to eat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A video of the ice breaking is posted here:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/48788289\/JangBogo\/Araon_Ice_Break.MOV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crossed into the Ross Sea around 04 December and Tera Nova Bay around 06 December, encountering ever thicker ice as we proceeded poleward.\u00a0\u00a0 At first, the strategy was to navigate around to find thin ice.\u00a0 This is the job of the Ice Pilots.\u00a0 We had two of them, from Russia, and one was on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/2014\/12\/24\/breaking-big-ice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 11:30:36","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\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/spaceweather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}