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Now that the tent is assembled, we can hoist up the gantry, attach the winch system that will be used to raise and lower ENDURANCE out of the "moon pool," secure the safety railings and let the electricians do their thing! The team is getting ready to deploy to Lake Bonney, and since the big push to

I woke up and realized that today is my Dad's birthday (Happy Birthday Dad!!!). However, I need to wait until tomorrow to call him because it is November 19th where he lives in Virginia. I spent the morning working on the computer. I finally worked out the mechanics of uploading videos to this

There were a few moments today when I suspected if we just held on tight to the tent lines that the wind would allow the entire team to parasail over to Lake Bonney! Even though it was a relatively mild wind - at least by Antarctic standards, it was quite a challenge to get the tent covers (yep -

19 November, 2008In North Carolina, I awoke this morning to our first "cold" weather of the season - cold enough to freeze a thin crust of ice over my Koi pond. The thin pond ice could not even support the weight of my shoe. This got me thinking about how strong the ice will need to be on Lake El

What a team! Today, we did a test build of the entire flooring assembly for "The Bothouse" which is the building that will house the robot - ENDURANCE - out at Lake Bonney. The flooring had already been built in Texas, but because of the shrinking and warping effects of wood due to weather and

Today started really early for me. I got up to watch Stacy on live, national television. She was on the* Today* show this morning. Now, when I say morning I am talking about 2:11am our time this Wednesday morning. For the rest of the United States it was Tuesday morning. I know it is a little

This morning's activities included a check out dive on surface supply for Peter and Bill. We met up with Rob and Steve - the "dive guys" (who run the diving program in Antarctica), got suited up and headed out to the pier in front of McMurdo. Rob reviewed how the surface supply connections were set