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Antarctic Undersea ROV

Welcome home!! How quiet was it there? Was it quiet? Or due to McMurdo and due to equipment, was it always noisy? I hear noise all the time at home, and at work and rarely hear complete quiet.

 

It has been great to read your posts, what a fascinating trip.

 

Mary Anne Pella-Donnelly

Tue, 11/20/2007 - 15:59

Mindy Bell

Hi Mary Anne,I found Antarctica to be amazingly, blissfully quiet.  As soon as you got away from the "bizzyness" of McMurdo, you could hear NOTHING.  I would just stand and listen to the silence as long as I could stay still.
Contrast that to my school's talent show today with all the kids cheering each other on.  (Which was awesome of course!) One of the teachers commented that I looked younger and that my wrinkles had disappeared, and I said that freezing your face was better than botox, but I really think it was from the peace and quiet of Antarctica!