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Success!!! Well almost. Our project manager, Stacy, and one of our ingenious engineers, Bob, came to my rescue last night! (Yes, my team is fantastic!) Going through my gigantic pile of stuff to be shipped to Antarctica, they told me to get rid of my "wind-proof" pants, cotton undershirts, and short

A final morning in Moscow and we pack our gear and head for the airport. I seem to have immediately made the transition to the 8-hour time difference there, but today we fly to Petropovlosk-Kamchatsky. This will once again put us 8 hours ahead for a total of a sixteen-hour time difference from home

Hi all, I’m going to interrupt our fascinating story of SCUBA divers in Antarctica and our upcoming series on SCINI to fill you in on the progress with packing. Yes, we’re packing now and it’s difficult!!! We have to have most of our stuff packed to ship down to the ice on August 10. That’s in a

At last, I meet Greg and Dustin, two members of the team that is heading out to Kamchatka. They have cleared a lot of time in their schedule today to show me Downtown Moscow. There are a lot of cathedrals here, along with buildings of importance with the government. We get out of the Metro station

Well, it’s been a long day and it’s only the first 24 hours of the journey. I left Newark International Airport yesterday at 5:30 PM and here I am 8 PM Moscow time one day later. The flight over was very interesting. I sat next to an Indiana born woman who has been working and living in Munich for

Finally. After all the list making, shopping, packing, e-mailing, phone calling and rearranging, I am ready to go. Waiting until 2 o'clock in the afternoon seems like an eternity to leave for the airport. Usually, when we fly places we are up before dawn and take early flights, but flights overseas

I had my big pre-expedition planning conference call the other day (it went an hour and 40 minutes but seemed to fly by!) Kristin & Janet at PolarTREC coordinated 8 of us on the line, efficiently going over all of the little details as we near the final approach. In addition to Kristin & Janet I

Another place we wanted to stop on our road trip was Paisley Caves. Both my mother in law in Oklahoma, Kathy Cupp, and my parents, Marty and Sarah in Oregon, had saved an article about the archaeology going on there. Apparently Dr. Dennis Jenkins has recently found what appears to be the oldest

Driving along the gravel road about 5 hours southeast of Portland, Oregon, the pungent smell of sage filled our noses. My dad and I were doing a road trip through the desert and had pulled off the highway to drive behind Glass Butte. The looming peak was to our left while to the right the land

On the topic of Aged SuperHumans diving in Antarctica, let’s explore the history of SCUBA diving in Antarctica a little bit.When do you think people first jumped into the –1.8°C (28.58° F) water in Antarctica? What was the first diver like and why did he plunge into the fridgid, clear, beautiful