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When you navigate between South Africa and Antarctica you are facing some of the toughest seas in the world. These are the furious 40’s and roaring 50’s – in latitude! In the northern hemisphere continental masses do break the force of winds and tides. In the southern hemisphere these just keep gaining strength, because of the reduced abundance of land. So I got waves bigger than 18 meters – not exaggerating. That is the icebreaker’s bridge height – Polarstern, were I sailed at. The waves did jump above the bridge many times…and to sleep when the ship would “fall down” was not an easy task. When the Sea gets really rough, Polarstern has some sort of underwater hydraulic “wings”, which once deployed help to stabilize the ship. |
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2008-05-16 19:37:03
from chinch1153
I would be seasick the entire voyage! Yikes!
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