**12-12-06 ****Sailing tonight 19:00 Internet links **
We are scheduled to sail at 19:00 pm today. The spare parts for the ship are scheduled to arrive 18:00 pm. We will see…
The main purpose for the Oden cruise is to break the ice open for a ship cannel to McMurdo Antarctica station for supply ships. Sea ice concentration and thickness are vital factors to our success. A map with current sea ice concentration can be found here.
Sea ice concentration
http://iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/amsre.html
(Courtesy of Graphic Maps )
We will go through the Strait of Magellan North, wait for reasonable weather conditions Northeast of Cape Horn (waves under 20 m) for crossing the famous, treacherous Drake passage where high winds and unpredictable currents have sank for many ships before.
Infrared composite radar map Antarctica
http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/~amrc/GOPHER.GIF
Here is an infrared composite radar map of Antarctica where you can make weather predictions. Look for the swirls and cloud bands in the "Drake”.
(Drake NASA)
Current Ozone levels Antarctica
http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Ozone O3 in the higher atmosphere protects us from harmful UV rays. It changes all the time over our area. At the moment Punta Arenas has a low ozone concentration in the atmosphere.
Day and Night time 24h daylight
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p
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