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Science - in the News
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 @ 20:37 GMT
Three UK explorers surveying the Arctic ice were
down to rations of just 90g of food each per day until a resupply
flight reached them on Tuesday.
Bad weather had frustrated repeated attempts to land new food
stocks at the ice camp set up by Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin
Hartley.
The explorers, from the Catlin Arctic Survey, usually consume enough food to give them about 6,000 calories per day.
The cut in rations took them down to just 1,000 calories each.
In the last few days before the flight landed, the team
had gone without any hot food and were described as "hungry, lethargic,
and excruciatingly bored".
At one point, cameraman Martin Hartley said he was surviving on the
equivalent of three Mars bars - even less in the last few days - and
listed his rations:
"Today I've had a cup of porridge, three pork scratchings, a piece
of dried coconut and a finger of shortbread. I've got 12 raisins left
in my bag and nine pieces of pineapple, each the size of a little
finger."
Ann Daniels describes the 6,000-calorie diet that the team would normally eat
Ann Daniels, navigator and cook, said after this morning's delivery:
"Our spirits are restored. Now we just need our bodies to catch up.
"I can't tell you how happy we are that the plane landed, rather
than just did an air-drop of food. It meant we had some human contact."
Expedition leader Pen Hadow said that the shortage of food forced
them to stop their task of measuring the thickness of the sea-ice.
The team will now be picked up a week earlier than originally planned
"We had to stop drilling and doing scientific observations for a few
days because it simply wouldn't have been sensible, given the cold, the
energy that the experiments demand and the lack of calorie intake."
Daniels said that when her colleagues left the tent to drill a few
days into the wait, they came back feeling sick and wobbly and took
longer than usual to warm up.
Poor visibility at a refuelling point - half-way between the team's
position and Resolute, the nearest settlement - meant that for day
after day the resupply mission was stalled (the successful flight
arrived 11 days late).
This is the second time that the team has been on reduced rations.
Another resupply flight last month was also delayed by bad weather.
Ocean instrument
The latest resupply was only made possible because the charter firm
Kenn Borek Air fitted special fuel tanks to allow the aircraft extra
range and so avoid the need for a refuelling stop.
This limited the amount of weight that could be carried, so while
food, fuel and batteries were delivered, a scientific instrument known
as SeaCat, designed to to be lowered into the sea beneath the ice, had
to be left behind.
Chip Cunliffe, operations chief in London, said: "It has been a
difficult 10 days trying to get the flight in, with the weather
consistently frustrating us, and a technical problem with one plane
causing us to turn back on one earlier attempt to reach them.
"Using additional fuel tanks has made this resupply easier in the end; and it's a relief to get the team moving once again."
The expedition, originally due to run into the end of May, is now
being concluded a week early amid concern about the strength of the ice
as the summer melt approaches.
The Catlin Arctic Survey team hopes its ice thickness data - coming
primarily now from drilling following the failure of a mobile radar
unit - will help scientists better understand the changes taking place
at the highest latitudes.
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Addicted to Energy
Sunday, 19 April 2009 @ 12:59 GMT
Objectives
Personal Capabilities:
Teamwork: to co-operate and reach agreement with others.
Science:
To understand how some ways in which manufacture and transport of goods can cause environmental damage.
To understand how choices between manufactured goods and services and activities can contribute to sustainability. Addicted_to_energy_FINAL_30Mar%5B1%5D.pdf
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