A peek under the ice

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.

Alan and Thom discuss returning to an inbox of horrors and readjusting to time away.

More cable cutting in our news updates, blobfish being voted fish of the year, and the tongue-eating louse potentially being invertebrate of the year. We don’t want to say we influence the news, but it seems a little spooky.

Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and communities that were revealed when the ice shelf moved away.

Kat and Thom updated us on what it was like to join a tourist expedition ship, and we grabbed a Coffee With Andrew to learn what it was like to dive almost 5km deep in a sub.

You’re bound to leave this episode with a watery smile!

 

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Reference list News

Cable cutting

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545872/the-new-threat-to-the-undersea-cables-keeping-our-intern