Deapsee Under the Pole : Ghislain Badout and his team (part 2)

Excerpts from their diary :

Excerpts from their diary : "Each dive enhances the quality of our work and enriches the data that we've collected...."

© Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex

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  • Excerpts from their diary :
  • After each diving session, the material had to be carefully checked up. While the other ones are preparing the evening meal, Bardout and Poyelle at work. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • April 24th : Ghilslain Bardout and his colleagues of the Deepsea under the pole.com expedition are gradually begin to realise that their progress is too slow for them to think of reaching Ward Hunt and the Canadian shore. So they will have to be recovered. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • April 30st : Ghislain Bardout and his partners in crime have decided that the adventure would be shorter than planned. The icecap is too dislocated to envisage continuing and getting themselves picked up at a later date. So the pick-up has to be organised. But with which plane? - © Ghislain Bardout / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • April 30st : 88° 12' 39
  • From their logbook (on April 17th, from Bardout's writing) :
  • From their logbook (on April 17th, from Bardout's writing) :
  • The decison of being air lifted has been taken some days ago : the ice pack is too chaotic this year and too broken into thousands of lead everywhere. It was impossible to progress as fast as foreseen int the beginning of the adventure. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • The air operation to collect Ghislain Bardout's team appears to be far from straightforward. And as the pilots at Ken Borek's company continue to analyse the situation, the members of Bardout's expedition continue to dive beneath the ice. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • So while the team is awaiting the Ken Borek air planes, Bardout has decided to carryn on with the diving. Every day, the start a new session. And find new unbelievable submarine landscapes. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • In the meantime also, Bardout takes the opportunity of being forced not to move for drawing everyone's attention to the trend of the icecap this year. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • Wayne Davidson (Arctic environment weather specilaist) writes :
  • Wayne Davidson continues :
  • Wayne Davidson continues :
  • The same author :
  • Davidson again :
  • Davidson again :
  • Meanwhile, the men on the diving expedition are making the most of their final hours on the ice to complete a few more dives. In all, they will have made 50 dives and reached a maximum depth of 35 metres. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • Up until Saturday (May 9th 2010), they had been out on the sea-ice for 44 days, having covered a distance of 166 kilometres since being dropped off in the vicinity of the North Pole. They are currently 231 kilometres from the Pole itself.. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • 9 May : The operation to pick up Ghislain Bardout's team all went according to plan. It was with no particular hitches and a great deal of nostalgia that the 8 participants of Deep Sea Under The Pole finally took their leave of the environment that have held them in thrall for so long. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • 11 May : At around 4 pm, the Twin Otter arrived in the area, touching down safely after flying over the landing strip a number of times. The strip had been marked out as clearly as possible using the waterproof bags that contained the expedition's rations. - © Benoît Poyelle / Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex
  • Extracts from their blog :
  • Extracts from their blog continues :
  • If you want to have a brider information about this expedition, please visit the pages Explorapoles has dedicated to the follow-up of it. (Section Expeditions > Arctic 2010 > Under The Pole). - © Deepsea Under The Pole by Rolex (Expedition logo)

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