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Here is a video that I made of the trip:

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Saturday, December 2, 2006
As I conclude this last in the series of entries from Antarctica, I thought it would be helpful to make a connection back to manufacturing. No doubt, you are probably wondering why a blog on Antarctica is found on Shopfloor.org, whose topics are manufacturing related. Three quick points:
1. At a superficial level, [...]

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Friday, December 1, 2006
For the next two days, we will be travelling the Drake Passage. The waters are slightly rough today owing to the fact that we are travelling north as the winds blow east to west. By sunrise tomorrow, we will be at Cape Horn, having past through the worst of it all.
This morning [...]

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Thursday, November 30, 2006
We visited Deception Island today, which is part of the South Shetland Islands. What a cool name, eh? On the island, there is a place called Whalers Bay, between Fildes Point and Port Foster. It is here where we got to check out a former whaling station. The area had some remains [...]

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The crew woke us up at 7 a.m. to have us observe an interesting formation on the sea: grease ice. As I may have mentioned in a past entry, in Antarctica, ice freezes at -1.8 degrees Celsius. But when its slightly warmer, ice begins to form on the water in small pieces, [...]

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Prior entries have been all about visits to the various islands in the Antarctic circle but today was different. Today was the day we would actually set foot on Antarctica for the first time. Its a balmy -1 degrees Celsius outside right now (about 30 Fahrenheit). Our first trip out this morning began at 9 [...]

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NOTE: The following was written in 2006 during David Kralik’s trip to Antarctica.  This is a re-print.You know how when you take a vacation, it usually takes a few days before you really feel like you are on vacation? Then, something happens where you finally fall into vacation mode? Well, today that was that day, [...]

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Because the waters of the Drake Passage have been unusually calm, we headed over to Elephant Island, named by the early explorers for the abundance of Elephant seals found here. It was on this island that Ernest Shackleton organized his mission to rescue his men that he left behind after The Endurance got caught [...]

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NOTE: The following was written in 2006 during David Kralik’s trip to Antarctica.  This is a re-print.
Today is our first full day at sea. We are very fortunate in that the turbulent waters of the Drake Passage that plagued explorers nearly a century ago have been quite calm for us. The Drake Passage can be [...]

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NOTE: The following was written in 2006 during David Kralik’s trip to Antarctica.  This is a re-print.
Greetings from Ushuaia, Argentina! The Blogger-in-Chief has graciously allowed me to veer off topic (yet again) and write a daily travel entry on the blog. Similar to last’s years travel report from Australia, where this humble blog was the [...]

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