Thursday, December 27, 2007
You Know She's a Little Bit Dangerous...
We are always told that Antarctica can be a dangerous place to live. I have had friends medavaced and sent back to the US because of accidents at work and injuries from recreational activities. These things could've happened anywhere, but were they more likely to happen here? Who knows! There have been a few major events this season that have made me think that maybe it really is dangerous living here...Earlier this season, a mattrack (like the vehicle I drove out to a seal camp) started on fire on the sea ice. Someone posted a photo taken from a helo on the I:drive within hours of it. I have the photo somewhere, and if I remember I'll post it later.
Then on the 20th of this month, the Basler aircraft flown by Kenn Borek Air had an "incident" about 600+ miles from McMurdo. There were 10 passengers on board, but luckily no major injuries were sustained. Here is a link to a blog written by someone who was on board. I'm also including a link to an article written for Canadian Content.
Just this morning, we had a dumptruck take out to power line poles and cut electricity to many different buildings on station including two facilities where experiments were being conducted. Luckily, it did not affect the Crary Lab itself.
It's an amazing stroke of luck, but nobody was seriously hurt in any of these accidents!
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Apparently drunk Christmas parties in Antarctica are dangerous too
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2232455,00.html
Were they fighting over you, Katie?