by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
For anyone who believes for a second that the Arctic is some benign home to only polar bears and Inuit, and ice is melting away faster than we can measure and somehow no longer an impediment to shipping, we can attest that it is not quite so. Certainly, there is...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
The greatest problem with the Arctic is not the Arctic itself, it is the incredible ignorance of what it is truly like up here. It starts with media hype about global warming claiming an “ice free Northwest Passage”, which leads to incorrect conclusions that...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
It is the Arctic. Everything changes constantly. Weather changes, the ice changes. Plans change. Most often it is the variability in ice conditions that cause plans to change. This time, it was weather. Having passed the Arctic Circle and...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
31 August and science has begun in earnest. Mirai cruise 13-06 stn 001 was conducted just outside the US 3 mile limit to the east of Little Diomede Island. Under sunny skies, winds NE15 and a slight 1m swell four separate casts were conducted In relatively...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
Since departure the ship has been cruising steadily north at 12kts. Weather has been typical overcast, winds N/NW 15 to 20 kts until late on the 29th when winds and seas began to moderate. That makes it better for the science crews to set up for the busy...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
Though I am starting this log the day RV Mirai departed Dutch Harbor, Alaska for a 6 week science mission in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, it really began the day I left my home port of Victoria on the 22nd. Not a problem flying from Victoria to Anchorage. I stopped...
