When working in the Arctic you have to expect things to break or not to go as smoothly as you would like. Indeed this happened to us quite a few times, here is our most recent eventful day on the ice… Continue reading A revisited way for bear-watching
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Being a pilot in the Arctic – interactive update!
Let’s have a look into the difficulties of operating high-tech equipment in the Arctic environment. But I don’t mean airplanes; I want to talk about flying a remotely operated vehicle, an ROV for short, in the water column beneath 1.5 m thick of landfast ice.
Continue reading Being a pilot in the Arctic – interactive update!
Rescue in Baffin Bay
It was June 23rd, day of the crew change, near Qikiqtarjuaq. We had a partially clear sky, just long enough to complete all the helicopter flights for cargo transportation, ice camp assistance and scientific team minor changes.